Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-23
Graves of the Presidents.

Every American, of course, is familiar
with Mount Vernon, Va, either by actual
sight OF description. The tomb is roomy
brick vault, with an arched roof, and very
substantial. Through AL iron gate two
sarcophagi are seen. On marble tablet in
its arch is the inscription: ''Withln this
enclosure rests the remains of General
George Washington" The coffins, which
lie in the open vestibule of the vault proper,
are of Pennsylvania marble; that of Wash
ington bears an American shield, the other
but two words, Martha Washington.
John Adams and John Quincy Adams sleep
side by side beneath the Unitarian church
at Quincy, Mass. The tomb is in an apart
ment in the front part the cellar under the
church, walled in with large blocks of
roughly-faced granite. 4 granite slab,
seven feet by three, with huge clasp and
paddock, and massive hinges of wrought
iron, all red with rust, forms the door.
Within the bodies lie in leaden caskets,
placed within cases each hewn from a sin
glo block of stone. the grave of Thomas
Jefferson is in thick growth of woods,
few hundred yards to the right of the en-
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 feet square and ten feet high,
which on the south side has been tOppled
over bodily, and nov, 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
OF Mnptnaliar u Tho erranaft,l
shaft over his grave is in the 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 a great part of the city. The
plot is S04 feet in area, 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. The
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 Presi-
dents chair, repose, with those of his wife
and children, in plain brick vault on the
summit of hillock at North Bend, Ohio,
fifteen miles west OF Cincinnati. Just ten
yards east Of Monroe's grave at Richmond
is turfed mound beneath which lies buried
the body of John Tyler. At its head is a
small magnolia tree, beneath which are
tea-rose and blooming green rose. The
James X. Polk mansion is at the corner of
Vine and Union streets, Nashville, Tenn,
A few feet from the gate white-shell path
conducts to the tomb OF the cS-President,
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 grave and
soon will find final resting place in
fourth 1t was first placed in the cemetery
at Washington, and thence removed to the
TAYLOR homestead, five miles back 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 it the State will
erect an appropriate monument. The
legislature at its last session appropriated
| $4, 900 for this purpose, and Senator Beck
has a bill before Congress for extend
ing further aid to the project from the Ma
tional Treasury. Three miles north of
Buffalo is Forest Lawn cemetery. Almost
upon the crest of the hill and near the CEN
tire of the cemetery rises the obelisk of
Scotch granite that marks the resting place
of Millard Fillmore. The remains of
Franklin Pierce were laid in the Minot
cemetery, on Nam street, In Concord, n.
H. The Pierce lot is surrounded by neat
iron fence six feet high, traversed by con-
crete paths and neatly sodded, though
there are neither Enclosures nor curbs. The
grave of James Buchanan is in Woodward
Hill cemetery, Wheatland, Penn, on q
bluff in the southeastern part of the city.