The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-07-13
Graves of tho Presidents,

Every American, Of course, is familiar
with Mount Vernon, Va, either by actual
sight or description. The tomb Is q roomy
brick vault, with an archcd roof, and very
substantial. Through an iron gate two
sarcophagi are seen. On a marble tablet in
its arch is the inscription: "Withn this
enclosure rests the remains of General
George Washington" The collins, which
lie in the open vestibulc of the vault proper,
are of Pennsylvania marble; that of Wash
ington bears an American shield, the other
but two words, "1Iartha Washington. 1"
John Adams and John Quincy Adams sleep
side by side beneath the Unitarian church
at Quincy, Mass. The tomb is in an apart
mint in the front part the cellar under the
church, walled in with large blocks of
roughly-faccd granite. A granite slab,
seven feet by three, with huge clasp and
paddock, and massive hinges of wrought
iron, all red with rust, forms the door.
" thin the bodies lie in leaden caskcts.
placed within cases each hewn from sim
gle block of stone. The grave of Thomas
Jefferson is in thick growth of woods, a
few hundred yards to the right of the cm-
powered road leading to Charlottesville, Va,
up to Monticello. The spot is as lonesome
as lovers of solitude could desire. Its thirty
graves are partly enclosed by brick wall
about 100 tcet square and ten feet high,
which Oh tho south side has been toppled
over bodily, and now. lies in level courses Of
brick and crumbling mortar level with the
ground. James Madison lies buried on the
place which he owned at the time of his
death, at Montpelier, Va. Tho graceful
shaft over his grave is in tho centre of a
large field, in lot about 100 feet square,
surrounded by a substantial brick wall five
feet high. The remains of JAMES Monroe
sleep in Hollywood cemetery at Richmond,
Virginia, at point from which the eye
can take IN great part of the city. The
plot 10 8O4 feet in urea, and was bought by
Gov. Wise for the State. Monroe died IN
New York in 1881, and it was not until
twenty-seven years had elapsed that his
body was removed to Richmond. Tho
grave of Martin Van Buren, is in the north
eastern corner of the cemetery at Kinder
hook, Columbia county, New York. The
ashes of William Henry Harrison, the oc-
cupant for only one month of the Prcsi-
dents chair, rcpose, with those of his wifo
and children, in plain brick vault On the
summit of hillock at Ncrth Bend, Ohio,
fifteen miles west OF Cincinnati. Just ten
yards east Cf Monroe's grave at Richmond
~ Cufleu inOllnu Dcncatn WnlCh lies buried
the body of John Tyler. At its head is a
small magnolia tree, beneath which arc a
tea-rosc and blooming green rose. The
James K. Polk mansion is at the corner OF
Vine and Union streets, Nashville, Tenn,
A few feet from the gate whtc-shell path
conducts to the tomb Of the cx.PrcsdcnL,
which stands in the centre of smooth
grass-plot, encircled by another path of
dazzling white shells, by which clump of
white lilies are growing. Zachary Tay-
lor's body now occupies Its third gravo and
soon will find final resting place in a
fourth. 1t was first placed in the cemetery
at Washington, and thence removed to the
Taylor homestead five miles bac, of Louis
vile, Ky, whence few months ago it was
taken to Cave Hill cemetery, at Louisville.
In the course of the summer it will be taken
to Frankfort, where over 1t the State will
erect an appropriate monument. The
legislature at Its last session appropriated
81, 600 for this purpose, and Senator Beck
has bill before Congress for extend.
ing furthor aid to the project from the Ma.