Death
Laurens died on August 27, 1782, aged 27, only a few weeks before the British finally withdrew from Charleston. He was buried on the Stock plantation. After his father Henry Laurens returned from his own imprisonment in London, he had his son's remains moved to his plantation, called Mepkin, near Moncks Corner. It was later adapted as a Trappist monastery, Mepkin Abbey.
Read more about this topic: John Laurens
Famous quotes containing the word death:
“I don’t see no way out but death and, Caleb, you are up against a hard game when you got to die to beat it.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“Oh! death will find me long before I tire
Of watching you.”
—Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)
“One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die!”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)