Musichetta was the first to go. She was walking home from work in the freezing cold a couple of years later, and had forgotten her shawl. She was constantly tired and cold. Eventually, Musichetta got pneumonia. Cosette and Éponine nursed her continuously. But Musichetta didn't want to get better.
"I think it's time for me to see my boys again," Musichetta said weakly from her death bed.
Éponine and Cosette were crying, but they nodded. Musichetta told Cosette to save her medicine and she fell asleep. The funeral was very short, and they buried her in front of Joly and Bossuet's grave.
Five years later, it was Éponine's turn. Éponine had a slight drinking problem when she was younger. She was an alcoholic, and would drink nearly as much as Grantaire used to. But, she met Marius and had wanted to make herself seem more appealing. The lure of alcohol had vanished by the time her gaze shifted from Marius to Enjolras. On the night of Grantaire's death, Enjolras found Éponine sleeping with a pile of empty bottle next to her. Éponine controlled her alcohol consumption for the most part, but the stuff was still destroying her liver. Her bad habitats and malnourishment as a child caught up to her, and she fell sick too. Cosette was trying to help, but one day she just burst into tears.
"Don't you fret, Enjolras. I don't feel any pain, I'll just sleep in your embrace," Éponine said softly to Enjolras, who was holding her one day. Enjolras had put her next to Grantaire. She died in 1858, at the age of 43.
Cosette and Marius died two years later, in 1860. Cosette caught a disease from a poor person she was helping. Marius was caught up in a violent riot at one of the trials. They were put in the meadow, buried in the same grave.
Enjolras lived to a nice old age. He got to watch the rest of his children and Marius's children marry. He saw his grandchildren. Maximilien and Josephine were so heavily influenced by the barricade story of 1832 that they wanted to continue the tradition of naming their children after important people in their parents' lives.
Maximilien and Josephine had three sons, Feuilly Bahorel, Joly Bossuet, and Georges Mabeuf as well as one daughter, Musichetta Simplice.
All four grandchildren loved to listen to Enjolras talk. He would tell them stories about revolutions and things they can only imagine.
Enjolras died in his sleep, peacefully. The day before he had told his son, "You deserve a place among the revolutionaries."