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tine <A??/oted to the old duties he reulired th: I; the oor:ibinctlon of ol'": i'f*e$ o sick body, end <'.< totally different situation were too Tiuch for hi? to ovorcone. Ho resigned ary.il dir'Cvpearfc fron politic
He dlu manage to get his oonceeclon on the Tehuontopcc
isthmus renewed by tho government of the still-r;ratefu 1
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Jucrec, by 18^9 sharing; ownernbip with other parties."-' Tlie oherter probrbly provided him with the moderate revenue with
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which he supported his declining ye ore.	The	concession
expired in 1873.
But he wd8 raoafc dependent upon his Fitter, ilrn John O'Brien and her brothero-ln-low,Hichord Hichoel O'Brien and Patrick Burke O'Brien. In Mrs O'Brien's home et Boy St. .uouis, Mississippi, the present St. F^rg-oret's Bau/'hters Home, he lived his last remaining days in almost conplete
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seclusion.
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Ho died in Bay St. Louie at five 1'.	jurjdny,	.^u^usi,
13, 1882. HIb age wr.s listed on ei'hty years. Tlx, funercl
took je iu New Orleans the following dry. / lorr;e *orte^e
followed his body to the netyirie Cemetery, where lt was
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pl?ced in the O'Brien tomb, which Id still intuct. Hovlnr; never ran:rled, he left no one behind to carry on his nnrae.