Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1878-11-28

in the shape of coffin. On one side
Of this is long and suitable inscription.
Over and around this odd monument j
a gothic structure. twelve feet long,
nine feet wide and twenty feet high,
four pillars supporting peaked roof.
ANDREW JACKSON.
Andrew Jackson home was the Her
misage, eleven miles from Nashville,
Tenn. In a corner Of the garden, eigh-
ty yards from the dwelling, lie the great
President and his wife, under mas-
siye monumentrof Tennessee limestone.
Three steps conduct to IFS surface. q CIR
GUAR area eighteen feet IN diameter
from which spring eight auted dcric coli
umns, supporting q pretty though plain
entab1ature and dome, surmounted by
an urn. Within, the ceiling and COR
nice are ornamented in white stucco.
In the centre Of the platform IS pyra-
mid resting on square; on the leftis
stone just over the body of the Presl-
dent with this inscription "Gen. An
drew Jackson, born March 10. 1867,
died June 8, 1S45."
MARTIN VAN BUREN,.
The grave Of Martin Van Buren is in
the northeastern corner Of the ceme-
terry at Undertook, Columbia county,
New York. The Van Buren, lot is
crowded with graves, is unfenced, and
without a flower or shrub for adorn-
ment. The ex-President's grave is in
the centre OF the lot. Above it rises
PLAIN granite shaft, fifteen feet high.
About half way up on one face is the
name of the deceased, with the date
of his birth and Of his death.
WILLIAM II. HARRISON.
The ashes Of William Henry Harri-'
son, the occupant for only one month Of
the Presidents chair, repose, with those
of his wife and children, in plain brick
vault on the summit of a hillock at
North Bend, Ohio, fifteen miles west Of
Cincinnati. A fiat stone at the height
OF about two and a half feet from the
ground roofs the brick work OF the vault.
A thick underground covers the hillock,
and few small evergreens cluster near
the tomb. The owners of the Spring
Grove cemetery at Cincinnati have Of
fered The Harrison family lot, to which
IL is quite likely that the Presidents re-
mains will be removed. ILL 1#t.
Jc::T TYLER.
Just ten yards ca I OF M11roe's grave
at Richmond is turGed mound beneath
which lies the body Of John Tyler. AT
has head is n small magnolia tree, now
in full bloom, beneath which are tea
rose and blooming green rose. Atits
foot, round a large deodar, cluster
bunch of chrysanthemums, white lily
and tea rose. On the south side is a
magnolia bush; on the north young
but vigorous juniper tree. Not a stone
is there to tell that beneath lies the
body OF John Tyler. At the time Of his
death, in 1862, he was a member of the
house in Richmond, and
was buried with distinguished honors.
The State Assembly instructed the Gov
ernor TO have suitable monument erec-
ted to his memory.
JAMES X. POLK.
The James X. Polk mansion is at the
corner of Vine and Union streets, Nash
vile, Tenn. A few feet from the gate
a whitewash path conducts to the tomb
of the ex-President, which stands in the
centre of a smooth grass plot cnciTcled
by another path of dazzling white shells,
by which clump of white lilies are in
full bloom. There are some small shrubs
bordering the path. but no other trees or
flowers. The monument, which is
about twelve feet high, and as many
square, is in limestone. In style it is
Grecian doric, though the columns are
unnuted which support the usual ar
chitrave, frieze, cornice and attic. The
stone or column on the floor beneath
rises TO a heIght ofsome FIVE feet, and
though solid, is of similar shape. The
tendrils of a plant Of Kenilworth ivy
cling 10 one of the columns. On the
arch,trave OF the eastern front is en-
graved an inscription, giving the name
of the President, and the date of his
birth and of his death.
ZACHARY TAYLOR.
Zachary Taylor's body now occupies
its third grave and soon will find rest
ing place in a fourth. II was first
placed in a cemetery at Washington,
and thence removed TO the Taylor
homestead, FIVE miles back OF Louis
vile. XIV. whence a few months aOo "A
was taken to Cave Hill cemetery, at
Louisville. The old family burying
ground had IN years of neglect gone to
complete ruin, the rotten palings crum-
bled away or been laid PROSTATE by
storms or breachy cattle, and weeds and
rank grass, OF numerous kinds, were
matted over the sunken mounds, when
TsyIor's nephew, Richard Taylor, re-
moved the bones Of has distinguished
relative 10 Cave Hill, where their pre-
sent resting place is indicated by small
and plain slab of white marble. In the
course Of the summer they win be ta-
ken TO Frankfort, where over them the
State will erect an appropriate monu-
ment. The Legislature at its last ses-
sion appropriated $4,000 for this pur-
pose, and Senator Beck has bill be-
lore Congress for extending further aid
to the project from the national treasu-
ry.
MILLARD FILLMORE.
Three miles north OF Buffalo Is Forest
Lawn Cemetery. Almost nnon the