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[i] John Tasker Howard, Stephen Foster, 150, 169-70, 305; Evelyn Foster Morneweck, Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family, Vol. 2, (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1944), 418.

[ii] For Morrison’s account of the events, see: Morrison Foster, My Brother Stephen, (Indianapolis: Foster Hall Library, 1932), 53, For George Cooper’s statement (the most reliable), see: Harold Vincent Milligan, Stephen Collins Foster, (New York: G. Schirmer, 1920), 106-107, For JoAnne O’Connell’s argument on the matter, see: “Accidental Death or Sucide?” in The Life & Songs of Stephen Foster: A Revealing Portrait of the Forgotten Man behind “Swanee River,” “Beautiful Dreamer,” and “My Old Kentucky Home,” (Lanham, Md., Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), 321-40, especially 324-327; George Cooper quoted in Harold Vincent Milligan, Stephen Collins Foster, 106-107.

[iii] George Cooper quoted in Harold Vincent Milligan, Stephen Collins Foster, 106-107; “Stephen Foster’s Chronology,” University of Pittsburgh, accessed January 19, 2022.

[iv] George Cooper quoted in Harold Vincent Milligan, Stephen Collins Foster, 107; “Almond Dunbar Fisk,” Iron Coffin Mummy: Steam Age Travelers And Their Mumiform Time Capsules, accessed January 19, 2022, https://ironcoffinmummy.com/inventors/almond-dunbar-fisk/; Douglas W. Owsley, Karin S. Bruwelheide, Larry W. Cartmell, Laurie E. Burgess, Shelly J. Foote, Skye M. Chang, and Nick Fielder, “The Man in the Iron Coffin: An Interdisciplinary Effort to Name the Past,” Historical Archaeology 40, no. 3 (2006): 89–108. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25617375.

[v] John Tasker Howard, Stephen Foster, 1, 364.

[vi] Morrison Foster, My Brother Stephen, 44; “None Shall Weep a Tear for Me,” Stephen Foster Lyrics, accessed February 3, 2022, https://sites.pitt.edu/~amerimus/lyrics.htm; “Oh! Tell Me of My Mother,” Stephen Foster Lyrics, accessed February 3, 2022, https://sites.pitt.edu/~amerimus/lyrics.htm.

[vii] “Bury Me in the Morning, Mother,” Stephen Foster Lyrics, accessed February 3, 2022, https://sites.pitt.edu/~amerimus/lyrics.htm; “The Bright Hills of Glory,” Stephen Foster Lyrics, accessed February 3, 2022, https://sites.pitt.edu/~amerimus/lyrics.htm; Golden Thoughts on Mother, Home, and Heaven from Poetic and Prose Literature of All Ages and of All Lands, Introduction by Reverend Theodore L. Cuyler, D.D. (Philadelphia: Bradley, Garretson & Co., 1883), 7.

[viii] Harold Vincent Milligan; Stephen Collins Foster, 107; Evelyn Foster Morneweck, Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family, Vol. 2, 562.

[ix] Pat Jalland, Death in the Victorian Family, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 17, 26; Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, (New York: Vintage Books, 2008), 4-9

[x] Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering, 9; Morris J. Vogel, “Patrons, Practitioners, and Patients: The Voluntary Hospital in Mid-Victorian Boston,” in Victorian America, ed. Daniel Walker Howe, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976), 121, 125, 130.