Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-02
TONES or OUR DECEASED pREsl.
BEATS.


DENTS.
The Presidents OF the United States
who are dead are nearly all buried in
the neighborhool of the homes which
they occupied. WashinGtoa's tomb at
Mount Vernon is known to ell the
world. John Adams aud John Quincy
Adams lie beneath the Unitarian church
at Quincy, Massachusetts. Tae collins
are of lead, placed in casSess hewn from
solid blocks of granite. Their wives
are buried with them. John Adams
died on the same day with jefferson.
strange coincidence itself. but, stranger
still, it was the fourth of july, l1As. Jus:
half century after the Declaration of
Independence which they had Joined in
making. Divided bitterly ii thsir lives,
but reconciled IN some degree as their
years drew to q close, they Quilted the
stage Of action side by side.
Jefferson. like his compatriot, was
buried in his family ground-bv his
home at Monticello. He had sat down
on the fv-lesf of an old accoun. book
his wishes concerning il. Choose"
his memorandum said. some unfre-
quen ed vale in the park. where Is no
sound to break the stiffness but brook.
that babbling, winds among the woods.
Let 1t be among ancient and ven
erab,e oaks; intersperse some gloomy
evergreens. Appropriate one-haif to
tae use OF my family, the other to
strangers, servants, etc. Let the exit
look upon small and distant part OF
the Blue mountains" These directions
were substantially carried ont. 4 little
enclosure, containing soma thirty
graves, stands among the woods on the
road that leads from Charlottesville To
Monticello. and gigantic obeliss. much
chippsd bnFelic-taking visitors, marks
the grave OF the ex- president.
In the same part of Virginia, in n
small enclosure near his home of Mont
pelier. lies the successor of Jefferson,
Madison, the fourth President. Beside
him is burisd his wife, who died in
1919, surviving him almos. thirty years,
aud two nephews. Two other Virginia
Presidents, Monroe aid Tyler. lie with
in few feet of each other in the tine
cemetery of Hollywood, at Richmond
Strangely enough, Monroe's death, like
those Of john Adams and Jefferson, fell
upon the Fourth of July, 1881, five years
after his great eldars-marksd the Ia
tons birthday by his close. He died
Az wow 4OiA q tcJl ui1sfs re-
mains were eEtonbed there until 1858.
when the Legislature of Virginia 10
moved them to Hollywood ana placed
them in substantial vault. marked By
q Gothic temple on foundation Of Vir-
gina granite. Tyler's grave, NEAR by,
il scarcely marked at all. 4 little
mound with a magnolia tree at tAs head
is pointed out az the spot.
Tho fhraa Tauuassaa p-asiiaota .-anl
back to the placa where they had WELT
for thsir long rest. Jackson is buried |
at his home, the Hermitage, near Nash |
vile, with his wife beside aim. 4 mas |
sive monument of Tennessee granite !
marks the pace. Polk is buried at |
Nashville, at the Old family homestead. |
He survived jackson ONLY four years. |
dying in 1919. The grave is hand |
soinely enclosed, AMI ~ block twelve |
feet squire by twelve feat il hight |
bears tho Inscriptions. Andrew John |
sons grave IL at Grsenviile, on spot |
selected by himself. His three sons
have erecteda handsome monument of
marble upon bass of granite. 1t be irs
numerous patriotic einbiems-a flag.
an eagle, the scroll of the constitution,
eto.-while the inscription declares,
"His faith in the people never waversd."
Martin Van Buren lies in the village |
cemetery at Undertook, New York, In
q family lot, his resting place marked
by a modest granite shaft. He died Ill
the summer of 1852, when the civil war |
WAS rising to it's hight. His SUCCESSOR,
Harrison, was blriei at his old home
at North Bend, On the Ohio river, few |
miles below Cincinnati. An uufence3 |
mound over q family vault, formerly !
neglected, but recently more carefully
kept, marks the spot.
The dust of Zachary Taylor is now
buried in the cemetery of Frankfort.
Kentucky, after several removals. Mil
lard Fillmors's grave is at Forest LAWN
Cemetery, three miles from Buffalo,
and that Of Pierce in the cemetery in
Concord, New Hampshire. Buchanan
is buried at Woodward Hill Cemetery,
near Lano aster, Pa. He died in 1868, a
year earlier than Pierce.
The most magnificent of all the
memorials to the dead Presidents is
that over the re5ting-place of Lincoln,
in the Oak Ridge Cemetery at Spring
field, Ill. 1t was dedicated in 1874. Its
cost is said to have been $250,O00. His
companion in history-Garfield-an I'M
timely victim, like himself, of the as
sassin's bullet, and the latest dead of
the.eightesn Presidents who have passed
away, is buried in Lake View Cemetery,
at Cleveland, Ohio, where in time n
monument comparable with that of
Lincoln is expected to riss.
Thus, of the eighteen dead Presidents
two only lie in one spot. Two are bur-
led in Mass .chusetts, two in New York,
five in Virginia, three in Tennessee, two
in Ohio, aud one each in New Hamp-
shire, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and IL
linois. Eight lie in private grounds, or
family burial places, as the case of the
Adams at Quincy. There is no Vaihal-
la, no Westminster Abbey, no public
ground belonging to the nation. The
Presidents went, in the end. to the citi-
zsnship that they sprung from, to the
equality OF fiaal reposs.