Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-10-27
GRAVES OF PRESIDENTS.
Where the Nineteen Dead Men Who
Have Governed the United States
Were Laid and Rest.

Nave G0yerned the Unlteu otates
Were Laid and Rest.
Washington's remains we're in 1877
removed from the old vault where
, they had hitherto lain to roomy
brick vault simple and substantial.
His body and that of his wife are in
closed In cofins of Pennsylvania mar
bic, one bearing an American shield,
the other the words, Martha Wash.
ington.' These are placed in the
vestibule of the vault proper, which is
closed against the public with an iron
gate. John Adams and his son, John
Quincy Adams, sleep side by side be-
meath the Unitarian Church of Quincy,
Mass, their wives with them. The
tomb is an apartment in the front part
of the cellar, walled in with large
blocks of roughly-faced granite, and
having for door granite slab seven
feet by three, with massive hinges and
lock of wrought from. In the church
above on either side of the pulpit, are
tablets of clouded marble, each sur
mounted by bust and inscribed with
the familiar epitaphs of the only father
and son that ever held the highest
Office in the gift of the American peo.
pie.
Jefferson and his wife and daughter
were buried in a thick growth of
woods a few hundred yards to the
right of the road leading from Char
louisville, Va, to Monticello, in small
private cemetery about one hundred
feet square. 1t was time that its care
should be undertaken by the public,
for the New York Worlds correspon-
dent visited the spot two years ago he
found the inclosure matted with weeds,
the walls preached, the graves trodden
level with the ground, and the coarse
granite obelisk over Jefferson's resting
place Clipped and battered by relic
hunters till only two lines of the in
scription were declpherable. Madison
reposes in such scene and amid such
surroundings as the mention of his
name would lead one to took for
Montpelier, near Orange, Va, in the
center of a softly picturesque region,
is q fair and trim estate, and the cem-
etery lot in the center of a level field,
well kept and neatly turied. From a
pedestal of four pieces rises graceful
and slender obelisk inscribed with
Madison's name and birth date, while
by its side a less lofty shaft marks the
resting place Of the fairest of..Repub-
lican queens, Dolly Madison. Mon
roe's body reposes in Hollywood
Cemetery, Virginia, on an eminence
near its extreme southwestern limit,
commanding a beautiful view of Rich
mond and the James. Above the body
is huge block of polished Virginia
marble supporting coffin shaped
block of granite, on which are brass
plates suitably inscribed. The whole
is surrounded by sort of gothic tenn
ple--four pillars supporting peaked
roof, to which something Of the ap
pearance Of bird cage is impaired BY
filling in the interstices with iror
gratings. seo s'ns "aa~ s.
, Jackson and his beloved wife Rache
are buried in corner of the garden o.
the Hermitage, eleven miles from
Nashville, on the Lebanon pike. The
tomb is a circular area of Tennessee
limestone, eighteen feet in diameter
approached by three steps; eight flutet
columns support an entablature ane
dome, surrounded by an urn. In thu
center of the area is square support
ing pyramid. jackson lies on th,
left, under plain stone slab; his wife
on the right. Magnolia trees encircl'
the grave, on which small clump O
hickories cast their shade. Van
Buren's body rests in the center of th'
VanBuren lot in the northeastern cor
ner of the cemetery at Undertook
Above it is plain granite shaft II
feet high. bearing simple inscription
about half way up one face. lnscrip
tions on two other faces are in memory
of his wife and their son, Martin. Th'
lot is unfenced, unbordered, unmarked
by shrub or flower. Harrison's bod,
in 1879 lay in plain brick vault OF
the summit Of hillock at North Bend
O., fifteen miles from Cincinnati. 4
thick underground then covered tn
hillock, and the tomb was not marked
by single letter. 1t was understood
that the body was to be removed t.
Spring Grove Cemetery, at Cincinnati
Tyler's, grave is turfed mound il
Hollywood Cemetery, at Richmond
ten yards from that of Monroe. N
stone marks it though the State is ulti
mately to erect monument above tn
spot, but ceadar and amagnolia stan
sentinel over it, and it is surrounde'
with flowers. a e
Polk's burial place is in the garden 0
the mansion he purchased on the ev
of his death. The site is the corner Q
Vine and Union streets in the city Q
Nashville, and the tomb is near tn
gate--in the center of a smooth grass
plot round which runs shell path Q
dazzling whiteness. The monument j
of limestone-Doric columns support
ing the usual architrave, frieze, corni,
and attic. The monument proper is
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