The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-08
roMBs OF THE PRESIDENTS.
A Glance at the Last Resting Place of
Men Most HOnOred by the Republic.


The Presidents of the United States who
are dead are nearly all buried in the neigh
borhood of the homes which they occupied.
Washingtons tomb, at Mount Vernon, is
known to all the world John Adams and
John Quincy Adams lie beneath the Uni
tartan Church at Quincy, Mass The
collins 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, strange
coincidence itself, but, stranger STILL it was
on the Fourth of July, 1926, just half
century after the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, which they had joined in making.
Jefferson, like his compatriots, was buried
in his family burying ground, at his home
in Monticello. He had written on the fly
leaf of an old account book his wishes con-
cerning it. CHOOSE" his memorandum
said, ''some unfrequented vale in the park,
where there is no sound to break the still
ness, but brook that bubbling winds
among the woods. Let it be among ancient
and venerable oaks, interspersed with some
gloomy evergreens. Appropriate one-half
to the use of my family, and the other to
strangers, servants, etc. Let the exit look
upon small and distant part of the Blue
Mountains. These directions were sub
stantially carried out. A little enclosure,
containing some thirty graves, stands amid
the woods on the road that leads from
Charlottesville to Monticello, and granite
obelisk, much Clipped by relic hunters,
marks the grave of the ex-President.
In the same part of Virginia, in small,
enclosure near his home in Montpelier,
lies the successor of Jefferson, James Mad
ison, fourth President Beside him are
buried his wife, who died in 1849, surviving
him almost thirty years, and two nephews.
Two other Virginia Presidents Monroe
and Tyler-ie within a few feet of each
other in the fine cemetery of Hollywood,
at Richmond, 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 predecessors and elders,
marked the nations birthday by his close
He died in New York poor man, and his
remains were entombed re'until in 1858
the legislature of Virginia removed them
to Hollywood and placed them in a SUBJ
stantial vault, marked by Gothic temple
on foundation of Virginia granite, Ty-
ler's grave, near by, is scarcely marked at
all; little mound with magnolia tree at
the head is pointed out as the spot.
The three Tennessee Presidents were
buried at their homes. Jackson at the
Hermitage, near Nashville, his wife beside
him. A massive monument Of Tennessee
granite marks the place. Polk is buried
in Nashville at the old family homestead,
He survived Jackson only four years, dying
in 1919 The grave is handsomely en-
closed, and block twelve feet square by
twelve feet in height bears the inscription
Andrew Johnson's grave is at Greenville>
on a spot selected by himself. His three
sons have erected handsome monument
of marble upon base of granite. 1t bears
numerous patriotic emblems, a flag, an
eagle, scroll of the Constitution, &c.
while the inscription declares "His faith
in the people never wavered.
Martin Van RuFen lies in the village
cemetery al Kinderhook, New York, in a
family lot, his resting place marked by
modest granite shaft, He died in the
summer of 1868, when the civil war was at
its height; His successor, Harrison, was
buried at his old home at North Bend on
the Ohio, few miles below CiDcfnnati.
An unfenced mound over a family vault,
formerly neglected but more recently care
fully kept, marks the spot,
The dust of Zachary Taylor is now buried
in the cemetery at Frankfort, KY, after
several removals Millard Fllmore's grave
is at Forest Lawn Cemetery, three miles
from Buffalo, n. Y, and that of Pierce in
the old cemetery at Concord, N. II. Buch-
anan is buried at Woodward Hill Cemetery,
Lancaster, Pa.
The most magnificent of all the memo
rials to the dead Presidents is that over the
resting place of Lincoln, in the Oak Ridge
Cemetery at Springfield, I'll, 1t was dedi-
Gated in 1874, and cost quarter of mir
lion of dollars,
Garfield is buried in Lake View Gene
terry, at Cleveland, Ohio, where grand
mausoleum has been erected in his honor.
OF the eighteen dead Presidents, two
only lie in one place. Two are buried in
Massachusetts,, two in New York, five in
in Virginia, three in Tennessee, two in
Ohio, and one each in New Hampshire,
Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Illinois.
Eight lie in private grounds, or family
burial places, as in the case of the Adamses
at Quincy.