USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day, July 4, 1826. Both were old men-Adams was 90, and Jefferson was 83-and both were ill, though Adams had been in comparatively robust health until just a few months earlier and Jefferson had been ill for an extended period.

Detailed explanation-2: -Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the USA, was often the victim of a panoply of disorders including episodic headaches, dysentery, rheumatism, multiple bone fractures, malaria, possibly tuberculosis, dental problems, diabetes and urinary tract obstruction.

Detailed explanation-3: -His last recorded words are “No, doctor, nothing more.” But these are perhaps too prosaic to be memorable. “Is it the Fourth?” or “This is the Fourth of July” have come to be accepted as Jefferson’s last words because they contain what everyone wants to find in such death-bed scenes: deeper meaning.

Detailed explanation-4: -Jefferson slept five to eight hours a night in a semi-reclining position since his bed was too short for his height. This position facilitated his habit of reading in bed. “I never go to bed without an hour, or half hour’s previous reading of something moral, whereon to ruminate in the intervals of sleep."