Death
While surveying the site of the Brooklyn tower for the Brooklyn Bridge, the tip of Roebling's right foot was crushed by a docking boat. After his toes were amputated, Roebling was diagnosed with tetanus and developed lockjaw. He suffered severe seizures and periodically lapsed into a coma before dying in the early morning hours of July 22, 1869 in Brooklyn Heights, New York.
Roebling is buried in the Riverview Cemetery in Trenton, New Jersey.
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In the ranks of death you’ll find him,
His father’s sword he has girded on,
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