Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-10-04
rHE TOMBs or PRESIDENTS.

| VH u TOMbS oT TpNESIDENIS.
| The Presidents ot the United States
who are dead are nearly all buried in
the neighborhood OF the 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 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. a
| strange coincidence ITSELF but stranger
still. it was on the Fourth Of July,
1926, just half century after the Dec
laration of Independence which they
had joined in making. jefferson. like
his compatriots, was buried in his fam
lily burying ground, at his homo in
Monticello. He had written on the
ny-leaf of an old account book his
wishes concerning it. Choose his
memorandum said, ''some unfrcguent.
ed vale in the park, where there is no
sound to break the stiffness but brook
that bubbing 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 substantially carried out. A lit
tic inclosure, containing some thirty
graves, stands amid the woods on the
road that leads from Charlottesville 10
Monticello, and granite obelisk, much
cr,ve of Tho exNprns;d.n, '"'
In IN. s,no nart nf V;ru;,;. l.,
email ;n,lns,,r., 80 h;s NJ,
nol;or Tns ,ha snanosaou % - Iarn.os
I,n,as Wad;sn, tou.,I. d..
side him are bn,;ed his M wife .hc d;"a
in 1910 surv;ving him aInos, ,h;r,n
vears and two 5enhnws Tho oths,
VIRGINIA presido,tsr Nonro. and Tvlo,
liz within . fcw f..t NJ ooct o,hav IN
,ha fno nam.torv 30 uoIIuwonJ -,
R;cbmo,d Monroo,s dna,h ILL., H..
nj Jnhn AJ,n,. anJ I,a.,rsn, t.,i, ,,,s,,
tbn Eour,h of Julv Ha Too in Iaai
five Years after his ,root nredoc.ssnr.
anj ,jJ,rs I'D ..d e., not;nn,s k;.,t
Iav | hv h;s % ninsn ' ~. lad !, Max
Ynrt moor n,n and hi, r,,,.;us
wnrs .n,punh.d ,hnro nn,;, ;n ,a,a ,hs
sgisI,,nra IF v;ro;u;a rann,aJ ,han'
IN 7ioIlvwood and nI,ceJ ,h.m in
snh.tan,i,I v.nI, .rkad hu cn,,;a
,,m,I,, ON :, fn',nJ,,;an t y;r,,;.,;,
or,,,ite Tv,.r,s nravo ro.r h,, !.
SscarcsIv n,rLnd at aii. n i;,,i, ,y,,J
with , n,gnnli, ,r.a NJ tho haad ia
noin,nd nni ,s ,be sno,
the ,hrcc T,nne.see preside,ts ,or.
buri.d a, ,hair homes .I,oLsnn a, tha
U.rmitage near NnsbviIle his viii. he-
sidn him A m,s.ivn m,nnmon, -
Tann..s.o gronita marie ihe nIooo
pail il Luried in N,snyiII. n, ,b., ,,Id
family bonns,e,d II. surviv.J JooL.
Snn nnlv four ve,rs dy;nr in IsIo ~.
cru. !. h,ndson,.iv ;rn7os,J aud
Sinck lively. feat sn,,,r., hv ,,vsIwa Zoo,
in heigh, hears tho in.crip,;on An.
drew Jobnson's grave il at Greepville
ON a spot selected bv bimself His
three sons have erected a handsome
monument of marble on base of Gran.
ite. 1t bears numerous patriotic EN-.
blems. a nap. an eacle. a scroll of tn,
Constitution etc. while tne inscrin.
ton declares: His faith in the peo.
ple never wayered.n
Martin Van Rurep lies in tho v;lI,po
cemetery at Kinderbook. n. Y, in a
family lot. hi, resting place marked by
a modest granite shaft. He died in the
summer OF 1863. when the civil war
was at its height. His successor, Har.
risou, was buried at his Old home at
North Bend. ON the Ohio. a few miles
below Cincinnati An unfenccd mound.
over a family vault. formerly neglect.
ed, but more recently carefully kent.
marks the spot.
The dust OF Zachary Taylor is now