Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-08-06
Tombs Of the Presidents.



The Presidents of the United States who
are dead are nearly al. buried in the neighbour
hood Of The homes which thev occupied.
Washngtons tomb.at Mt Vernon, is known
to all the world. John Adams and John
Quincy Adams lie beneath the Unitarian
church at Quincy, Mass.
Tie cotfins 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 CO.
incidence itself: but stranger still, 1t was on
the Fourth Of July. ls26-just half centu-
nv after the Declaration OF American indie
pendence which they had joined ii making.
Jefferson like his compatriot, 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 concern
ing ii.
In the same part Of Virginia, in small
Enclosure near his home IN Montpelier, lies
the successor of Jefferson, James Madison,
fourth President. Beside him are buried
his wife who died IN 1919, surviving him
almost thirty years, and two nephews. Two
other Virginia Presidents, Monroe and ~
Ter, lie within few feet of each other in the
fine cemetery of Hollywood at Richmond.
Monroe's death and 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 en-
tombed there until in 1853 the Legislature
OF Virginia removed them 10 Hollywood and
placed them in substantial vault. marked
by Gothic temple on foundation Of Viz
ginia granite. Tyler's grave near by is
scarcely marked at all; little mound, with
magnolia tree al the head, is pointed out
as the spot.
The three Tennessee Presidents were bu-
ried a, their homes Jackson at the Hermit
tage, near Nashville, his wife beside him.
4 massive monument of Tennessee granite
marks the place. Polk is buried in Nash
vile. at the old homestead. He survived
Jackson only few years, dying IN 1919.
His grave is handsomely inclosed, and
block twelve feet square by twelve feet in
height bears the inscription. Andrew john
sons grave is at Greenvllle, on spot select
| ed by himself. His three sons have erected
a handsome monument of marble upon a
base of granite.
| Martin Van Buren, lies in the village
cemetery at Kinderhook, New York, in a
family lot, his resting place marked by
modest granite shaft. He died in the sum
mer of 1868, when the civil war was at its
height. His successor, Harrison, was bu-
red at his old home at North Bend, on the
| Ohio, few miles below Cincinnati. An
unfenced mound, over family vault. for
| merly neglected but more recently carefully
| kept, marks the spot.
The dust of Zachary Taylor is now bu-
ried in the cemetery at Frankfort, KY, af-
ter several removals. Willard Fillmore's
| grave is at Forest Lawn Cemetery, three
miles from Buffalo, and that of Pierce in the
old cemetery at Concord, N. H. Bucha-
nan is buried at Woodward Hill Cemetery,
| Lancaster.
| The most magnificent of all the memorials
to the dead Presidents is that over the rest
| ing place of Lincoln in the Oak Ridge Gem
etsry at Springfield, III. It was dedicated in