He probably could still hear a little, enough to plonk something out on a keyboard.
38 posted on 10/13/2005 6:21:30 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
(No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
Nope--stone deaf. He died in 1827, and all indications are that although he began to lose his hearing in the late 1790s, he could hear nothing by 1812 or so.
42 posted on 10/13/2005 6:43:45 AM PDT by Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they have to.)