Daily Republican., 1882-09-27
FROM E.gEAM ERICAN.
The BuElal places Of Great Mo,

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tomb, at Mount Vernon. is known tt
all the world. John Adams and John
Quincy Adams lie beneath the Unitar
ian Church at Quincy, Massachusetts
The cotiins are o. lead, placed In cases
hewn from sold blocks of granite
Their wives are buried with them.
John Adams died on the same day
with Jefferson, a Strange coincidence
itself, but, stranger still, it was the
Fourth Of July, 1896 just half a century
after the Declaration of Independence
which they had joined in max
ing. Divided bitterly In their
lives, but reConciled in some degree
as their years drew a close, they quit
ted the stage of action side by side.
Jefferson, like his compatrio was
buried in his family grouud-by his
home at Monticello. He had sat down
on the fly-leaf of an old account book.
his wishes concering it. "Choose,"
his memorandum said, "some uufre-
quented vals in the park, where is no
squad to break the stiffness, but a
brook that bubbling winds among the
woods. Let it be
among ancient aud venerable oaks;
intersPerse were some gloomy ever
green's.
Appropriate one-half to the use of my
family, the other to strangers, servants,
etc Let the exit look upon a small
and distant part of the Blue Noun
tains," These directions we're substan-
TALLY carried out. A little enclosure,
containing thirty graves, stands
amongst the woods on the road that
leads from Charlottesville to Monticello,
and granite obelisk, much Clipped by
relic taking visitors, marks the grave Of
the eX-President.
In the same part of Virginia, In
small enclosure near his home at Mont
pelier, lies the successor of Jefferson,
Madison, the fourth President. Beside
him is buried his wife, who died in
1849, surviving him almost thirty years,
and two nephews. Two other Virginia
Presidents, Monroe and Tyler, lie with
i'll few feet Of each other In the hne
cemetery Of Hollywood, at Richmond.
enough. Monroe's death like
those of John Adams and Jefferson,
fell upon the Fourth of July. He, tOO--iI
in 1881, FIVE years after his great elders,
the nations birthday by
his close. He died in New York, q
poor man, and his remains were en-
tombed there Until, In 1858, the Legis-
lature Of Virginia removed them to
and placed them in a sub !
vault, marked by a Gothic !
temple on foundation Of Virginia |
granite. Tyler's grave, nearly, is
marked at all; little mound |
with magnolia tree at the head, is
pointed out az the spot
The three Tennessee Presidents went
back to the places were they had dwelt,
for their long rest. jackson is buried at
his home, the Hermitage, near Nash
Vile, his wife beside him. A massive
of Tennessee granite marks
,he place. Polk Is buried in Nashville,
At the old family homestead. He sur
Vived jackson only four years, dying
n 1849. The grave is handsomely en-.
,losed, and block, twelve feet square
~ twelve in height, bears the inscrip-
ion. Andrew Johnson's grave is at
on spot selaCted by him.
elf. His three sons have erected a
handsome monument Of marble upon Il
Dase of granite 1t bears numerous
patriotic emblems-a flag, an eagle,
he scroll of the Constitution, etc
While the inscription declares: His {
aith in the people never wavored." t
1artin Van Buren lies in the village {
emetery at Undertook, New York, |
n family lot, his resting place mark 4
d by modest granite shaft. He died t
q the summer of 1862, when the civil /
var was rising to its height. His sue a
essor, Harrison, was buried at his old t
ONE at North Bend, on the Ohio River, t
few miles below Cincinnati. An un- '
,nGed mound over family vault, for {
lerly neglected but recently more I
arefully kept, marks the spot. o
The dust of Zachary Taylor is now
nried in the cemetery at Frankfort,
.entucky, after several removals.
Iillard Fillmore's grave is at v
crest Lawn Cemetery, three miles d
ON Buffalo, and that of Pierce in the "
d cemetery in Concord, New Hamp- b
lire. Buchanan is buried at Wood n
ard Hill Cemetery, near Lancaster, 81
a. He died in 1868, year earlier il
an Pierce. O,
The most magnificent ofall the memo. IL
ais to the dead Presidents is that over a,
% resting place of Lincoln, in the Oak d,
idge Cemetery at Springfield, Illinois. W
was dedicated in 1874. Its cost is W
Id to hay been $25O,0O0. His CON- a
Lnion in history-Gartield, ,-uutimely d,
ctim, like himself, of the assassin's it
lllet, and the latest dead of the eigh.,
on Presidents who have passed awayt
buried in Lake View Cemetery, a.
eveland, Ohio, where, in time,a mon, p
nent comparable with that of Lincoln II
expected to riso. at
Thus of the eighteen dead Presidents, a. ~
70 only lie in one spot, Two are bur- =;
l in Massachusetts, two in New York, ~ ~
re in Virginia, three in Tennessee, hs
70 in Ohio, and one each in New II
PennsYlyauiS, Kentucky, 70
d illinois Eight lie in private ~
ounds, or family burial places-as a}
o case of the Adamses, at Quincy. r.
lere is no Valhalla, no Westminster 4"
bbey, no public ground belonging to
o nation. The Presidents went, in
@ end, to the citizenship that they
rang from, to the equality of the final ~ ~
pose. In great contrast are the royal g. q,
mbs In Westminster abbey, to whose oa
agnifcence pages OF description are a.
ven. Yet among them there is moth vi vi
2 of Cromwell. The body which was 81
esumed to be his-though there is W w
ubt whether he was buried in West pl
Inster Abbey at all,-was taken up, ue ut
Obeted at Tyburn, the head placed 30 30
pole, the trunk buried beneath the LID
llows two years after his death--a
rt of the glorious acts OF the Restora.
N co
lf thnsa Whn have adorned tho litera. tn