Death and Burial
Witherspoon had suffered eye injuries and was blind by 1792. He died in 1794 on his farm Tusculum, just outside of Princeton, and is buried in the Princeton Cemetery.
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Famous quotes containing the words death and, death and/or burial:
“Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.”
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“They are girls. Green girls.
Death and life is their daily work.
Death seams up and down the leaf.
I call the leaves my death girls.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
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