 On June 16, 1880, Congress adjourned, once again, without action on a bill which would have given Sutter US$50,000.Two days later, on June 18, 1880, Sutter died in the Made's Hotel in Washington D.C.He was returned to Lititz and is buried adjacent to God's Acre, the Moravian Graveyard; Anna Sutter died the following January and is buried with him.