Tag: John C. Calhoun’s tomb (Charleston SC)

Wikipedia says: Calhoun died at the Old Brick Capitol boarding house in Washington, D.C., on March 31, 1850, of tuberculosis, at the age of 68. The last words attributed to him were “The South, the poor South!”

He was interred at St. Philip’s Churchyard in Charleston, South Carolina. During the Civil War, a group of Calhoun’s friends were concerned about the possible desecration of his grave by Federal troops and, during the night, removed his coffin to a hiding place under the stairs of the church. The next night, his coffin was buried in an unmarked grave near the church, where it remained until 1871 when it was again exhumed and returned to its original place.