Later Life and Death
Lea returned to California in May 1912 to recover his health. He had hopes of rejoining Sun Yat-sen, but he suffered another stroke in late October 1912, which proved fatal. His final wishes were to be buried in China, but his cremated ashes remained with his family until they arranged for the Republic of China to receive them. In 1969, his ashes and those of his wife Ethel (née Bryant) were interred at Yangmingshan Public Cemetery in Taipei, Taiwan. President Chiang Kai-shek, Sun Yat-sen’s brother-in-law, took a personal interest in the arrangements. He believed the interment of the Lea’s ashes in Taiwan should only be temporary until they could be transferred to Nanking and interred by Sun Yat-sen’s mausoleum, when Taiwan and mainland China were finally reunited.
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