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o'clock midday, he quietly passed away, serene in death 

 as in all his life. Three hours before on that same 

 day, at his home in Massachusetts, John Adams died, 

 and just before the last breath left him the memories 

 of the grand old times when Massachusetts and Vir- 

 ginia stood together and built up this Union flitted 

 across his mind, and he murmured, " Thomas Jeffer- 

 son still lives." 



