The last Lincon family tragedy

[Jim Garrett]

James Monroe also died on the 4th of July, 1831. There is a terrific book "who's Buried In Grants Tomb?" by Brian Lamb and the staff of C-Span. to quote this book regarding James Madison, "A neighbor of Jefferson's in the Virginia piedmont, Madison was treated by the same physician, Dr. Robley Dunglison, who tended to Jefferson in his final days. In his last months, clearly on the verge of death, Madison was told that drugs could prolong his life until the Fourth of July. He refused to try to delay the inevitable and thus did not survive to share the same memorable day of death as Presidents Adams, Jefferson, and Monroe."