While traveling in the wilderness, Cyrus is accidentally shot by his father Reuben Bourne on the exact spot where the title character died.  
The opening scene of this work describes a fifteen or twenty foot high smooth mass of granite after the narrator describes the national significance of Lovell's Flight.  After being brought to safety, the protagonist is too sick to speak, and several days pass, making it too late for him to tell the others where his wounded friend is.  After marrying that friend's daughter Dorcas, the protagonist takes over that friend's farm but cannot focus properly due to his overwhelming guilt and is forced to sell it.  While traveling in the wilderness, Cyrus is accidentally shot by his father Reuben Bourne on the exact spot where the title character died.  FTP, name this short story in which the title character is never properly put to rest, a work of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The opening scene of this work describes a fifteen or twenty foot high smooth mass of granite after the narrator describes the national significance of Lovell's Flight.  
Roger Malvin's Burial