The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-11-08
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est granite shaft. be died In the SIM.
mer of 1862, when the evil war was
rising to its height. His successor
Harrison, was buried at his cd home 81
North Bend, on the Ohio River. few
miles below Cincinnati. An unfepced
mound. over a family vault, formerly
neglected but recently more carefully
kept, marks the spot.
The dust of Zachary Taylor is now
buried in the cemetery at Frankfort.
Kentucky, after several removals. Mil
lard Fillmore's grave is at Forest Lawn
Cemetery, three miles from Buffalo.
and that of Pierce in the old cemetery
in Concord, New Hampshire. Buchan.
an Is buried at Woodward Hill Cemete,
~, near Lancaster, Pa. He died in
1868, year earlier than Pierce.
The most magnificent Of all the
memorials to the dead Presidents is that
over the resting place Of Lincoln, in the
Oak Ridge Cemetery, at Springfield,
Illinois. 1t was dedicated in 1874. Its
cost is said to have been s25O,00 His
companion in history-Garfeld-un-
timely victim, like himself, of the
assassin's bullet, and the latest dead of
the eighteen Presidents who have passed
away, is buried in Lake View Gene
terry, at Cleveland, Ohio, where, in time,
monument comparable with that of
Lincoln, is expected to rise.
Thus of the eighteen dead Presidents. !
two only lie in one spot. Two are
buried in Massachusetts, two in New
York, five in Virginia, three in Ten
nessee, two in Ohio, and one each in |
New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ken
lucky and Illinois. Eight lie in private
grounds, or family burial-places-as in
the case of the Adams's, at Quincy.
There is no Valhalla, no Westminster
Abbey, no public ground belonging to
the nation. The Presidents went, in the
end, to the citizenship that they sprang
from, to the equality of the final repose. /
In great contrast are the royal tombs in
Westminster Abbey, to whose magnifi-
cence pages of description are given.
Yet among them there is nothing of
Cromwell. The body which was pre-
sumed to be his-though there is doubt
whether he was buried in Westmins-
ter Abbey at all-was taken up, glib
oeted at Tyburn, the head placed on a
pole, the trunk buried beneath the gal
ows two years after his death--a part
If the glorious acts Of the Restoration!
Of those who have adorned the litera-
ure Of our language, Chaucer, Spen-
.er, Beaumont, Drayton, Cowley, Den {
lam, Dryden, Addison, Prior, Con-
;reve, Gay, johnson, Sheridan, and
Campbell lie in Westminster Abbey. /
Milton was buried in the church-yard of I
It. Giles's, Cripplegate; Pope, in the ,
hurch at Twickenham Swift, in ST. |
'atricks's, Dublin; Thompson, in the |
hurch- yard at Richmond, in Surrey c
fray in the church-yard at Stoke-Pogis, t
he scene of the "Elegy;" Goldsmith, t
a the church-yard of the Temple /
'hurch; Cowper, in the church at h
)ereham; Burns, in st. MitchaePs h
hurch-yard, Dumfries; Byron, in the !
hurch of Hucknall, near Newstead il
-bbey; Coleridge, in the church at C
Iighgate; Sir Walter Scott, in Dry c
urgh Abbey; Southey, in Crosthwaite e
hurch, near Keswick. q
In this country there is no one ma o
onal cemetery of pre-eminence. Web n
er is buried in "an ancient burying- h
round" overlooking the sea, near
Marshfeld," where he lived and in
ke manner Clay's grave is near his L
ome at Ashland, in the cemetery at
exington. Bayard Taylor lies at 81
ongwood, a little cemetery within sight N
his birthplace at Kennel. Seward is 81
lried at Auburn. Franklin's grave CT
ID the tombstone covering his and his n
ak through an iron fence panel in the a.
ife's remains, may be seen from the side al
all of the graveyard of Christ Church, IL
Philadelphia. General Wayne's re- r
aims, exhumed at Erie, in the old W
rt, and brought by his son over the W
ountains in a box, seventy-fve years lc
%, are in the graveyard of the old 81
urch at Radnor. Alexander Hamil- a,
n lies in the Trinity churchyard, New al
ork, with a monument above him. &c
,aneis Scott Key, who wrote the "Star in
,angled Banner" is buried in Mount gI
ivet Cemetery, at Frederick Mary te
nd. lie