In due time…..when I shall have paid the debt of Nature, my remains will rest here in your midst with those of my kindred and neighbors. It is possible they may be unhonored, neglected, spurned! But, perhaps, years hence …..some wandering stranger, some lone exile may erect over them a humble stone, and thereon, this epitaph, “He was Faithful.”

SLEEP SOFA
c. 1840
American Restoration, upholstered sleep sofa. Curved back with scroll arms on bobbin-turned legs. Seward passed away on this couch on October 10, 1872.
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