Editing Elbridge Gerry (section)

== Death and burial ==
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[[File:Elbridge Gerry VP CC DC.JPG|thumb|Gerry's grave in [[Congressional Cemetery]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]]]

On November 23, 1814, Gerry suffered a [[heart attack]] while visiting [[Joseph Nourse]] of the [[United States Department of the Treasury|Treasury Department]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=To John Adams from Rufus King, 23 November 1814 |url=https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-6352 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518081248/http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-6352 |archive-date=May 18, 2015 |access-date=May 12, 2015 |website=archive.gov}}</ref> and he died soon after returning to his home in the [[Seven Buildings]]. He was 70 years old.<ref name="Billias329">Billias, p. 329</ref>

He is buried in the [[Congressional Cemetery]] in Washington, D.C.,<ref>Purcell, p. 53</ref> with a memorial by [[John Frazee (sculptor, born 1790)|John Frazee]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Search results for: Frazee John, page 2 – Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution |url=http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=Frazee+John&start=20 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231000150/http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=Frazee+John&start=20 |archive-date=December 31, 2013 |access-date=November 4, 2013 |website=collections.si.edu}}</ref> He is the only signer of the Declaration of Independence who was buried in the nation's capital city.<ref>Roberts and Schmidt, p. 47</ref> The estate he left his wife and children was rich in land and poor in cash, but he had managed to repay his brother's debts with his pay as vice president.<ref name=Billias329/> Aged 68 at the start of his vice presidency, he was the oldest person to become vice president until [[Charles Curtis]] in 1929.