Death
He died in his home in St. Paul, Minnesota on May 29, 1916. Mary Hill died in 1922 and was buried next to her husband by the shore of Pleasant Lake (North Oaks, Minnesota) on their North Oaks farm. Because of vandals or curious admirers both graves were later moved to Resurrection Cemetery in St. Paul for safer keeping.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
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what could death bring,
more black, more set with sparks
to slay, to affright,
than the memory of those first violets.”
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as to know it as it is known
by galaxy and cedar cone,
as if birth had never found it
and death could never end it:”
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