Death and Burial
Wightman was interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Mass. His wife Berthia (Bertha) (Morse) died in 1901 and was interred next to him.
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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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“hung up like a pig on exhibit,
the delicate wrists,
the beard drooling blood and vinegar;
hooked to your own weight,
jolting toward death under your nameplate.”
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I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away,
And, turning from my nursery window, drew
A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu!”
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