Sunderland died of a cerebral embolism at the home of his daughter and son-in-law, Rosalie and Orrin Day, in Catskill, New York on June 30, 1901, his wife, Mary Elizabeth Tomlinson Sunderland, having predeceased him in 1896.
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Moyes commented that " apparently we had reached the time when some kind of qualification was required and some consistency in appointment was observed . " Elliott also umpired in three matches in the 1884 85 series, and died two days after his last appearance of a cerebral embolism ( stroke ).