Death
Farragut died at the age of sixty-nine in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from a heart attack while on vacation in the late summer of 1870. He is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery, in The Bronx, a borough of New York.
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“Sin their conception, their birth weeping,
Their life a general mist of error,
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