The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-11-04
DEAD PRESIDENTS.
Record of Their Deaths, and
. Scenes at Their Funerals.

IBeq Perlsy PcoEe, in Bosion Journal
Cieorge Washington died at Mount
Vernon, of, infammatory quinsy, Dec
II, 1799' His coffin was of lead, in
-.ti- closed in a mahogany shell, with orna-
are ments inscribed, 'Stirge al ju6iciuB3
e'Fe and (" Glofit Dec, [" and a silver plate,
>ii.' ON which was engraved: General
e. George Washington, departed this life
1ie on the 18th of December, 1899. 8lt 6S. Z"
There was an escort composed of caval-
sf% >ry,a and infantry, wtlra band of music :;
'~@~S-next was 4ed stffe Generals horse, with
his saddle,-bridle and pistols then
~ges came. the sbody, sM bier, with Cos.
Sinnis, Ramsay, Payne Gilpin Mar
steller and Little as pail bearers the
s4is s'Fneemasonsyfollowed, bearing the great
er and the lesser lights. aud citizens
gfcloseds the procession. When the pro-
cession moyed, minute-grns were fired
from q vessel at anchor in. the Potomac.
On approaching the family, vault the
cavalry halted, the infantry marched to
the door, halted, opened ranks and
TA facet inward; the clergy and the Ma
- - sonic brothers preceded the remains to
the vault and the funeral services were
performed. The infantry then fired
three yolley, and eleven pieces of artil-
lery near by paid the last tribute to the
ex- President and General of the army
Washington had directed in his will
that a new family vault should be
~built at Mount Vernon at the foot of
what's called the vineyard Enclosure"
til 1881, when new tomb was erected,
- sof brick, 'archel and with stone panel
over the door, Inscribed: a.. L am the
-, resurrection and the life. he that be
heveth in me. though he were dead, yet
shall he live" brick wall twelve feet
high, surrounds the vault, with an iron
ssS @ as'st 5sss III IL .4$sss;sI s$5
by a,cornlce. Over the gateway is in
~ s9Pss s5S7s wssht@a @9s'
ton. In 1887 Philadelphia marble
worker was permitted to furnish sar-
cophagus cut from Pennsylvania mar
bic, with cover of Italian marble, on
which the arms of the United States
sf we're cut in relief The leaden coffin
containing the remains of the iustrious
hero was placed IN this sarcophagus,
and the remnants of the mahogany shell
were distributed among those present
The body of Martha the wife of Wash
ingtop, Is incased in another sarcopha-
eF 4 i sgnss and they occupy the right and left
SIDES OF heaeatrance to the tomb and
are visible through the iron gateway.
gv , Congress proposed at one time to have
Washington's remains removed to the
owxy crypt prepared for them beneath the ro-
: g. tundar of the Capitol, but the Legislature
- ofYrginia protested.
.s'ssae John Adams died at Quincy July
= 4, 1926, Of old age, having lived al
most nirety-one years An immense
Ni'n' cofcotirse' of people attended his
-a' z funeral and escorted his remains
= '4e'A to their resting place beneath the Uni
tartan Church. Soon afterward, when
.a2s-e the societyzwrs about to erect stone
- 2 portIct to it's church. John Quincy Ad-
ans received permission to construct a
"a ssv vault beneatlfit and tos- erect al monu-
z An5ent within-tha- budding at-the side of
the pulpit The remains of John Adams
gaand his wife were placed in fhe vault in
y sascophagi Of stone, and the monument
which bears long and fulsome inscrip-
ton, was snrmounted with a bust of the
deceased President by Horatio Green
a 'ough. .iN' 81 ~ tat
"a Thomas jefferson died at Monti-
a cello. his. Virginia homsteead, of
complication of diseases attendant
upon old age, the 4th of July,
1926, the same day which John Ada
Nsse& ans expired. 1t was his wish that his
interment should be private and accord
eaa} ingly no public notice was given of the
time of his funeral His body was borne
- on bier down the mountain side by his
Aslaves, and followed by his relatives, to
>e family burial ground, where his wife
Rsed. On arriving at the grave 1T
ound that a coneourse of his neigh
bad assembled although the rain
In torrents, and the burial sery-
he Episcppm church was read.
lent was erected IN accordance
Fdrawing found among his papers,
inscription in which he styled
"Author of the DECLARATION of
kcan Independence the Statute of
mia for Religious Freedom and Fa-
Bof the University of Virginia" His
bnument gradually carried away
by relic hunters until but little of it
named, and Congress last year made an
appropriation to replace it. The marble
= slab which marked the grave of Mrs.
Jefferson has disappeared, and the small
burial place has a dilapidated, neglected
appearance
tkNk James Madison died at "NIontpelier,"
-. his rural home, at the base of the Ale
-. gheny mountains, 127 miles southwest
-. from Washington, at the advanced age
~ of 81 years, on the 23d of June, 1886.
as7a He had large funeral, and he was in
81 tered In private burial ground on the
1es estate, with naught but tradition to
e mark the spot. After repeated unsuc-
Csli cessful efforts to raise by subscription,
10E asum for the erection of monument,
"a some gentlemen of Orange county col
81 lected 500 in 1897. It was with some
A'e - difficulty that the exact location of the
grave was identified, but in digging for
i ~ n suitable foundation the coffin
wee. found 1t was of black walnut, In per-
feet preservation, and the interior was
~ nearly filled with species of moss,
- amid which were the skull and few of
the larger and harder bones. -
James Monroe, Revolutionary soldier,
- = diplomat, Senator, Secretary of State
2r7a and President, died a poor man, at the
- .7ta house of his son-in-law, Postmaster
Gouveneur, in the city of New York,
.sisiea July A. 1881, aged 73. There was an
3ss % imposing FUNERAL old Gen. Jacob Nor
ton commanding the military escort, and
the Remains weresd deposited in a small
= cemetery in Second street, just below
Third avenue, in the vault of Thomas
=. Tillotson. In 1858 the State of Virginia