Titian Ramsay Peale died in Philadelphia on March 13, 1885, aged eighty-five. He had retired from employment at the United States Patent Office in 1873 after a long career combining scientific illustration, natural history, and public service. That retirement provides a framework for his later years but is not evidence of a particular illness. The consulted biography does not identify an immediate medical cause, a period of terminal decline, or the treatment he received. He was buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia in an unmarked grave, recorded as section 8, lot 74. The cemetery detail establishes the disposition of his remains without supplying a medical narrative. His family's numerous similarly named artists and naturalists require care in matching records; an illness of another Peale should not be assigned to him. His own final symptoms and last words remain unverified in the material reviewed.