Death
Commodore Barney died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on December 10, 1818 en route to Kentucky, from complications related to the wound he received at the Battle of Bladensburg. He is buried in Allegheny Cemetery .
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.”
—Jessamyn West (1902–1984)
“When Gabriel’s trumpet ends all life’s delay,
Will crash the beams of firmamental woe:
Not nature will sustain the even crime
Of death, though death sustains all nature, so.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)