The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-07-17

rave, frieze, cornice and attic. The
stone or column on the floor beneath
rises to a height of some FIVE feet, and
though solid is of similar shape. The
tendrils of a plant Of. Kenilworth ivy
cling to one Of the columns. On the
architrave of the eastern front is en-.
graved a simple inscription, giving the
name of the president, and the date Of
his birth and of his death.
Zachary Taylor's body now occupies
it's third grave, and soon will find a rest
ing place in a fourth, It was first placed
in the cemetery at Washington, and
thence removed to the Taylor home
stead, five miles back of Louisville, KY,
whence q few months ago it vas taken
to Gave Hill cemetery, at Louisville.
The old family burying ground had in
years of neglect gone to complete ruin,
the rotton palings had crumbled away
or been laid PROSTATE by storms or
breaohy cattle, and reeds and rank grass
were matted owe the sunken mounds,
when Taylor's nephew, Richard Taylor,
removed the bones of his distinguished
relative to Gave Hill, where their pres
ent resting place is indicated by q small
and plain slab of white marble. In the
course of the summer they will be taken
to Frankfort, where over them the State
will erect an appropriate monument.
The legislature at its last session appro-
pristed 1900 for this purpose, and
Senator Beck has O bill before Congress
for extending further aid to the project
from the national treasury.
Three miles north of Buffalo is Forest
Lawn cemetery. Almost upon the crest
of the hill and neal the center Of the
cemetery rises the obelisk of Scotch
granite that marks the resting place of
Willard Fillmore. The Fillmore lot is
thirty by forty feet, inclosed by o plain
iron railing set in a stone curb, and con-
tanning four graves. The obelisk is
twenty-five feet in height, resting on a
pedestal of the same material superim-
posed on q base of Lockport stone. A
slight moulding running around the pc
destal is the only ornament; the word
"Fillmore" is on the northern side of
the base in large raised letters. Millard
Fillmore's grave is at the eastern e <
tremity of the lot in the center of the
grassy space. Over it is a small arch of
green wire supporting a large cross sur.
mounted by q crown, both of juniper and
purple and yellowimmortelles, all faded
and dry.
The remains of Franklin Pierce were
laid in the Minot cemetery, on Main
street, in Concord, N. b. The Pierce
lot is surrounded by a neat iron fence
six feet high, traversed by concrete paths
and neatly sodded, though there are
neither Enclosures nor curbs. Pierce's
monument is of pure italian marble,
elaborately wrought, a spire, with cap,
die and plinth resting on q base OF
granite three and a half feet square, and
surmounted by a draped cross, it's total
height being fourteen feet eight inches.
On the plinth is the word "Pierce," and
on the panel OF the die the inscription.
The grave of James Buchanan is in
Woodward Hill cemetary, Wheatland,
Penn, on a bluff in the southeastern
part Of the city. The lot is thirty by
twelve feet, enclosed by a neat fence OF
black iron, with posts of notified white
and black granite at the corners. ALI
around the fence is a hedge of blooming
roses that interlace closely the iron bars.
In the center OF the lot Buchanan's re-
mains lie in a vault If heavy masonry,
covered with large limestone flags. On
these is O ground base OF New Hamp-
shire granite, seven feet two inches long,
three feet seven inches wide and a foot
thick, supporting a monument in the
Roman style, a single block Of Italian
marble six feet four inches long, two feet
ten inches wide and three feet six inches
high, wrought with heavy moulded cap
and base. On the moulding Of the cap
is carved an oak branch studded with
leaves and acrons, and extending round
the block. On the end of the die facing
the main avenue is the word "Buchan-
an" on the side facing the chapel is the
inscription.
Abraham Lincoln, born in a log lint,
is buried under a towering pile of mar
BILE, granite and bronze, in Oak Ridge
Cemetery, a mile and a half north of
Springfield, Ill. The structure, 1872
feet, is of New Hampshire granite on a
concrete foundation. The main plat
form is fifteen feet ten inches from the
ground, approached by four grand stair
cases, one at each corner, with balus-
trades. The main platform, also sur
rounded with a balustrade, is seventy
two and ene.half feet square, with
semi-circular projections at the northern
end over the catacomb, and at the other
over Memorial Hall. This platform,
foored with gigantic flags OF Illinois
limestone, is the apparent base OF the
shafts and pedestals for the support OF
the statuary, these occupying a space
ffty-four feet square, the pedestals at
the corner being circular and eleven feet
in diameter. From the center rises the
shaft, twelve feet square at the base and
eight at the top, ninety-eight feet foul
inches from the ground, with a winding
staircase within. Shields Of polished
granite, bearing the names of the States
and linked by two bands of like mate.
rial, encircle the square three feet be-
low it's edge. On the pedestals, at the
corners, are heroic groups in bronze.
representing the naval and the three
branches of the military service. Seven
feet above them, on the southern side
of the shaft, on a pedestal wherein the
national coat of arms is carved, stands
the statue of Lincoln. In the catacomt
beneath, in q leaden coffin within a &C.
dar case, which is enclosed in a ricl
white marble sarcophagus, having carved
on one end the word "Lincoln," rests
the embalmed body of the president. A
marble tablet with a plate-glass pane II
the center closes the crypt.
The monument over Andrew John.
sons grave was unveiled recently. Il
stands on the summit of q lofty cone
shaped emlnence half q mile southwes'
of the town of Greeneville, Tenn. TIL.
monument is of marble upon a base O.
granite nine and one-hslf feet by seven
From piers on each side of the graves
where lie side by side the president ane
his wife, who survived him less than BIZ
months, springs a granite arch OF thlr'
teen stones. beneath which the graves,
covered with white pebbles, may be
seen, and upon which rests the monu
ment proper. On the plinth, OF marble
four and one-half feet square and three
and one-half feet high, is the inscrlp,
ton. On the die, which is three and
one.half feet square and three feet two
inches high, are carved the scroll OF the
-- +ba fourtoanth and ff.