He got divorced and died on the same day
Burr pulled a true nasty maneuver when he returned to the US in 1812 following the Burr Conspiracy fiasco and began using his mother's maiden name, Edwards, to evade his numerous creditors. Mr. Adolphus Arnot was the identity he used to board the ship that brought him back to the United States from the UK. Burr lived out the rest of his life in New York in relative serenity, despite financial hardships, until 1833. Burr wed Eliza Jumel, a rich widow 19 years his junior, on July 1st, 1833, when he was 77 years old. They shared a brief residency in the Morris-Jumel Mansion in Manhattan's Washington Heights, which she had purchased with her previous husband. It is presently conserved and accessible to the public after being listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Jumel divorced Burr after four months of marriage when she learned her wealth was shrinking as a result of his losses from land speculation. In 1834, the same year that Aaron Burr suffered a paralyzing stroke, she selected Alexander Hamilton Jr. as her divorce attorney. On September 14, 1836, the day the divorce was formally finalized, he passed away at Port Richmond, a town on Staten Island, in a boardinghouse that eventually became known as the St. James Hotel. In Princeton, New Jersey, he was laid to rest close to his father.
