Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
On the a large mail was received from the
East. I had a letter from Orson Spencer giving account of the Church
in Europe over which he presided. The papers brought the state
of affairs of the United States. Among the members of Congress
dead was John Quincy Adams aged 81 years. He died in his seat
in the house of Congress. His father John Adams and
Thomas Jefferson both Presidents of the United States both died on
the same day the 4th of July in the fiftieth year of the Indipendance
of the United States and now John Quincy Adams had died on
the birth-day of Washington.
