Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-02-13
GRAYRs o. THE PREsIDENTs


il would be a good idea Tor the United
States to have national mausoleum, like
Westminster abbey, in which Presidents
could be buried, and statues of them
erected. At present some of them have
neither slab nor q monument to mark
their graves. General Harrison's BODY
rests in brick vault on the top of lit
file hill fifteen miles west of Cincinnati.
A big. fat stone lies on its top, but there
10 no inscription. and the only beauty
about the grave is the pine trees which
surround it with their perpetual green.
John Tyler's body is buried in the Holly
wood cemetery at Richmond, Va, and
has not stone or bust to mark its rest
ing place. Ten Yards away is President
Moaroe's grave, but he was not buried
here until after the centennial anniver-
sary of his birth.
Monroe waited twentv-seven years for
an appropriate tomb, and he now rests in
vault over which is a large granite
sarcophagus and on it an inscription tes-
tifying that it was erected las an evil
dence of the affection of Virginia for her
good and honored son.
Van Iluren's grave, notwithstanding
his wealth, is now bleak and bare, with,
out flower or shrub. at Undertook,
and a year or two ago the little granite
shaft which stood over the remains of
Thomas jefferson had been mutilated and
its inscription destroyed by relic hunters.
Its gates were rusty and its appearance
that of a ruin.
George Washington has been twice
buried. and Henry Clay showed one day
in the Senate piece of his first coffin.
Mount Vernon is now his tombstone,
and the sarcophagus in which he lies is
brick vault overlooking the Potomac.
1t has hut one word on it, and that is
Washington.
The two Adamses are buried in the
Unitarian church at Quincy. When
! John Adams died. his son, the Presi-
dent, obtained deed to a burial lot in
the cellar of the church fourteen feet
square, and in this he built granite tomb
for himself and his father Here lie the
two Presidents and their wives, and on
the walls of the church above are long
Inscriptions commemorative of their lives
and worth. John Quincy Adams in
scription commences: - Near this place
reposes all that could die of John Quin-
cy Adams" And it closes:
A son worthy of his father
| A citizen shedding glory on kis country.
/, A scholar ambitious to advance mankind.
This citizen sought to walk humbly in the
sight of God.
The inscription devoted to the first
Adams and his wife Abigail ends in the
following verse of advice, headed 'Pil-
grim"
From lives thus spent thy earthly duties
| learn;
From fancy's dreams to active virtue turn:
Let freedom, friendship, faith, thy soul en-
gage,
! And serve, like them, thy country and thy
age.
The most expensive of the presidential
monuments IRE, suppose, those of Lin
coin and Garfield. l-incoln's monument
az Sprinfeld cost 5000, $50, and the
ground devoted to that OF Garfield's il
said to be worth 100000 and the
monument is to cost $3.50, 1000 more.
There has been o number of stories
published in regard to the graves of
President Taylor. in that he was at first
buried at Washington and his body
afterward moved about from place to
place. The truth is he has never been
buried, but was brought Immediately, on
his death at the capital, to his fathers
old farm in Kentucky, and there put into
vault. Ills body has lain there ever
since, and there is gray granite monu-
ment. surrounded by marble statue of
the general, near by.
Frank Pierce has q monument Of
Italian marble at Concord, and, strange
to say. the name engraved upon it is
Francis Pierce, instead of Franklin
| Pierce, as he was known TO the country.
i It has no long inscription, and is, like
the monument of Willard Fillmore at
Buffalo, simple to an extreme. James
Buchanan lies in a vault in the Lancas-
ter cemetery. and chronicles his life in
the dates of his birth and death. and
! thefact that he was the fifteenth Presi-
dent of the United States. 1t takes
twenty three lines to write the inscrip-
tiOn on Folks tombstone, and it lies In
Nashville, twelve miles away from that
of Andrew Jackson, a much greater
man. who sums his record up in three.
Jackson's body lies in his garden at the
Hermitage beside his wife. The monu-
ment above them is of Tennessee lime
stone, and Jackson's life is given in
these words: "Gen. Andrew jackson.
born March 10, 1867; died June 8,
1916. ~ CleCel0nd Lender.