Mr.Peter, Dr.Craik, and Dr.Thornton tarried here all night.[1] [Footnote 1: From notes by T.Lear, Ford, XIV, 254-55.] The Committee appointed by Congress to plan a suitable memorial for Washington proposed a monument to be erected in the city of Washington, to be adorned with statuary symbolizing his career as General and as President, and containing a tomb for himself and for Mrs.Washington.The latter replied to President Adams that "taught by the great example which I have so long had before me, never to oppose my private wishes to the public will, I must consent to the request made by Congress, which you have had the goodness to transmit me, and in doing this, I need not say, I cannot say, what a sacrifice of individual feeling I make to a sense of public duty." The intended monument at the capital was never erected.

Martha Washington lies beside her husband where she wished to be, in the family vault at Mount Vernon.

From her chamber window in the upper story of the Mount Vernon house she could look across the field to the vault.

She died in 1802, a woman of rare discretion and good sense who, during forty years, proved herself the worthiest companion of the founder of his country.
I have wished to write this biography of George Washington so that it would explain itself.

There is no need of eulogy.