in favor of the measure, he instead yelled, "No!"[212] He rose to answer a question put forth by Speaker of the House Robert Charles Winthrop.[213] Immediately thereafter, Adams collapsed, having suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage.[214] Two days later, on February 23, he died at 7:20 p.m. with his wife at his side in the Speaker's Room inside the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.; his only living child, Charles Francis, did not arrive in time to see his father alive. His last words were "This is the last of Earth. I am content".[213] Among those present for his death was Abraham Lincoln, then a freshman representative from Illinois.[215]

John Quincy Adams's original tomb at Hancock Cemetery, across the street from United First Parish Church
His original interment was temporary, in the public vault at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Later, he was interred in the family burial ground in Quincy, Massachusetts, across from the (Unitarian) United First Parish Church, called Hancock Cemetery. After Louisa's death in 1852, his son had his parents re-interred in the expanded family crypt in the United First Parish Church across the street, next to John and Abigail. 