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Daniel Adams Butterfield Grave

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In West Park, he was active in the Church of the Ascension. After the death of his wife, he had the interior of the Church redecorated as a memorial to her and their only child. In 1886 he remarried in St. Margaret's Church in London. It seems that he did not spend time at West Park thereafter, and he settled at Cold Spring, New York, where he died on July 17, 1901 He was buried at West Point by special order, although he never attended the military academy.

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Photograph