The true northerner., 1883-03-23
THE PRESIDENTS GRAVES.
where the Dead Chiefs Of the American
Republic Lie Buried.

THE PRESIDENTS GRAVES.
where the Dead Chief. of the American
Republic Lie Buried.
[From the Philadelphia Americana
The Presidents of the United States
who are dead are nearly all buried in the
neighborhood Of tho homes which they
occupied. Washington's tomb, at
Mount Vernon, is known to all the
! world. John Adams and John Quincy
Adams lie beneath the Unitarian Church
at Quincy, Mass. The coffins are OF
lead, placed in cases hewn from solid
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, 1876,
just half century after the Declaration
OF Independence, which they had joined
in making Divided bitterly in their
lives, but reconciled in some degree as
their years drew to close, they quilted
the stage of action side by side. Jefier-
son, like his compatriot, was buried in
his family ground-by his home at
Monticello.
In the same part Of Virginia, in
small inclosure near his home OF Mont
pelier, lies the successor OF Jefferson,
Madison, the fourth President. Beside
him is buried his wife, who died In
1S49, surviving him almost thirty years,
and two nephews. Two other Virginia
Presidents, Monroe and Tyler, lie
within few feet of each other IN the
fine cemetery of Hollywood, at Rich
mond Strangely enough, Monroe's
death, like those of John Adams and
Jefferson, fell upon the Fourth of
July. He, too-in 1881, five years
after his great elders-marked the
nations birthday by his close. He died
In New York, poor man. and his re-
mains were entombed there until, IN
1858, the Legislature of Virginia re-
moved them to Hollywood and placed
them in substantial vault, marked by
Gothic temple on a foundation of
Virginia granite. Tyler's grave, near
by, is scarcely marked at all; n little
mound, with magnolia tree at the
head, is pointed out as the spot.
The three Tennessee Presidents went
back to the places where they had
dwelt for their long rest. Jackson is
buried at his home, the Hermitage,
massive monument of Tennessee granite
marks the place. Polk is buried III
Nashville, at the old family homestead
He survived Jackson only four years,
dying i'll lS49. The grave is handsomely
mclosed, and block, twelve feet
square by twelve in height, bears the
inscriptions. Andrew JohnsOn's grave
is at Greenville on a spot selected by
himself. His three sons have erected Il
handsome monument of marble upon n
base of granite. Martin Van Buren,
lies in the village cemetery at Kinder
hook, N Y, in family lot, his resting
place marked by Il modest granite shaft
He died in the summer of 1869, when
the civil war was rising to its height.
His successor Harrison, was buried at
his old home at North Bend, on the
Ohio river, q few miles below Cincin-
natl. An unfenced 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,
KY, after several removals. Millard
Fillmore's grave is at Forest Lawn
StHltbtIy, blIet UulleS lIOul Du1tlO,
and that of Pierce in the old cemetety
in Concord, n. II. Buchanan is buried
at Woodward Hill Cemetery, near Ian.
caster, Pa. He died in 1868, year
earlier than Pierce.
The most magnificent of all the me.
MORALS to the dead Presidents is that
over the resting place of Lincoln, in
the Oak Ridge Cemetery, at Spring
field, Ill. 1t was dedicated in 1874. Its
cost is said to have been $3.50, 600. His
companion in history, Garfeld-un
timely victim, like himself, of the
assassin's bullets buried in Lake
View Cemetery, at Cleveland, Ohio.
where, in time, monument compar
able with that of Lincoln is expected tc
arise
Thus, of the eighteen dead Presidents
two only lie in one spot. Two ar,
buried in Massachusetts, two in New
York, five in Virginia, three in Tennes
see, two in Ohio, and one each il
New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ken
tucky and Illinois. Eight lie in prirat,
grounds, or family burial l-places--
the case of the Adamses, at Quincy
There is no Valhalla, no Westminste,
Abbey, no public ground belonging t,
the nation. The Presidents went il
the end, to the citizenship that the,
sprang from, to the equality of the fina
repose.
The Returned ArgOnaut.