When Three Presidents Died On The Fourth Of July, Americans Saw The Hand Of God
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Subject: When Three Presidents Died On The Fourth Of July, Americans Saw The Hand Of God Sun Jul 16, 2017 6:42 pm
When Three Presidents Died On The Fourth Of July, Americans Saw The Hand Of God
On July 4, 1831, James Monroe died from heart failure and tuberculosis at his daughter’s house in New York City. The fifth U.S. president had attempted to write an autobiography, but was unable to complete it as his health slowly deteriorated after his wife died the year before. Thousands of mourners crowded the narrow New York City streets to see the 73-year-old’s hearse make its way to the family vault in Marble Cemetery. With his death came an eerie coincidence that many people couldn’t ignore: Monroe had become the third president and Founding Father to die on the Fourth of July. Five years earlier, on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, longtime friends and occasional rivals Thomas Jefferson and John Adams also died…
When Three Presidents Died On The Fourth Of July, Americans Saw The Hand Of God
Subject: When Three Presidents Died On The Fourth Of July, Americans Saw The Hand Of God 
Sun Jul 16, 2017 6:42 pm
