Original: Martin Van Buren then retired to his home in Kinderhook. After being bedridden with a case of pneumonia during the fall of 1861, Martin Van Buren died of bronchial asthma and heart failure at his Lindenwald estate in Kinderhook at 2:00 a.m. on July 24, 1862.
Simplified: In July, 1862, Van Buren had a serious asthma attack and began to weaken .49 Van Buren died on July 24, 1862, at his home in Kinderhook, New York, of heart failure .382 He was 79 years old.