Editing John Abbott (section)

==Later life==
[[File:Funeral monument John Joseph Abbott.jpg|left|thumb|Abbott's funeral monument in [[Mount Royal Cemetery]].]]
Suffering from the early stages of cancer of the brain, Abbott's health failed in 1892 and he retired to private life, whereupon [[John Sparrow Thompson|Sir John Thompson]] finally became prime minister. Abbott died less than a year later at the age of 72.

Sir John Abbott is buried in the [[Mount Royal Cemetery]], [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]].<ref name="Parks_Grave">{{cite web | url=https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/culture/clmhc-hsmbc/sep-gra/abbott |website=Former Prime Ministers and Their Grave Sites |title=The Honourable Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott | date=October 3, 2017 | publisher=Parks Canada |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171211222214/https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/culture/clmhc-hsmbc/sep-gra/abbott |archive-date=December 11, 2017 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>