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Show BOTH DIED ON FATEFUL DAY ' j Coincidence In the Pasting of Adama I and Jeft-rion. I July 4. 1s"il, the flttleth anniversary i of the signing of tbe declaration of In E dependence, wns a Joyoui occasion In I the Cnlted Stairs. Two distinguished ! signers worn still alive John Adama ( ' and Thomas Jefferson. Twenty five . ; years hnd elapred slnco Adama waa (' president and seventeen slnco Jnffor- son left the white house. "On that day." says Charles Frnncla Adama In , his bloarnnhv of lilt- i-nrwlfttir ' . "from one end of the country to tha , ' other, wherever Americans were gath- ' , errd together, the names of Adama ' 1 ' and Jefferson were coupled In accenta . of gratitude and praise. Party pas- ' ; ' slims were completely drowned In the a flood of national feeling which over- , spread the land" Kays Hlr tleorge 1 Otto Trevelynn: "All day long Ad- : ' ama was sinking rapidly and without k. pain. Hla last so, Hole remark la said 1 . to have been. Thomas Jefferson atlll f survives.' Hut such was not tho case. V Jefferson died nt msui on that Fourth t of July and Adams shortly before sun- , set. Thero are few more striking clr- cumstances and no more remarkable rolncldcncca In history." 1 |