headquarters for Freemasonry in the state, symbolically tapping it into place with the same gavel George Washington had used during the Masonic cornerstone ceremony for the United States Capitol building. Vaux married on March 12, 1840, Mary Morris, daughter of Jacob Shoemaker and Sarah Morris Waln. Richard and Mary Vaux had six children, of whom Jacob Waln Vaux was the fifth. Vaux died on March 22, 1895, in Philadelphia and was interred in Laurel Hill Cemetery. References 1816 births 1895 deaths Politicians from Philadelphia Mayors of Philadelphia Democratic Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Members of the Philadelphia Club Burials at Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia) 19th-century American politicians Members of the American Philosophical Society