USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Dr. Gordon Jones thinks it likely Jefferson developed a true septicemia, which would explain Jefferson’s subsequent “prostration.” Heavy doses of sulphur and mercury in ointment form helped clear the infection but were debilitating in themselves.

Detailed explanation-2: -On this day in 1826, which marked the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died within hours of each other. Adams was 90; Jefferson was 83.

Detailed explanation-3: -Two Presidents Died on the Same July 4: Coincidence or Something More? On July 4, 1826, two prominent presidents, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, took their final breaths within hours of each other. Some have wondered if it was somehow planned.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.