The funeral services were held in Trinity Church on the Tuesday following, and his body was laid to rest in the Nicholson vault,[30] in the old graveyard adjoining.

The elegant monument erected during his lifetime is one of the attractive features of this venerable cemetery, in whose dust mingle the remains of the temple of no more elevated spirit than his own.

The season was a terrible one--the cholera was raging, the city was deserted.

In the general calamity private sorrow disappeared, or the occasion would have been marked by a demonstration of public grief and of public honor.

As the tidings went from city to city, and country to country, the friends of science, of that universal wisdom which knows neither language nor race, paused in their investigations to pay respectful homage to his character, his intellect, and to that without which either or both in combination are inadequate to success--his labor in the field.
On October 2, 1849, at the first meeting of the Historical Society after the death of Mr.Gallatin, Mr.Luther Bradish, the presiding officer, spoke of him in impressive words, as the last link connecting the present with the past.