Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-09-17
THE ToMBs OF PRESIDENTS.

The Presidents OF the United States
who are dead are nearly all buried in
the ncighborhood 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 coifius
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, n
strange coincidence itself. but stranger
still, it was on tho Fourth of July.
1926. just half century after tho Dec
laration of independence which they
had joined in making. Jefferson. like
his compatriots, was buried in his fam
ily burying ground, at his home in
Monticello. He had written on the
fy-leaf of an old account book his
wishes concerning it. Choose his
memorandum said, '.some unfreauent-
ed vale in the park, where there is no
sound to break the stiffness but brook
that bubbling winds among the woods.
Let 1t be among ancient and venerable
oaks. interspersed with some gloomy
evergreens. Appropriate oEc-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
tie Enclosure, containing some thirty
graves, stands amid the woods on the
road that leads from Charlottesville to
Monticello, and 4 granite obelisk, much
clipped by relic hunters. marks the
grave OF the ex-President
In the same part of Virginia, in a
small Enclosure near his homo in Mont
pelier, lies the successor of Jefferson.
James Madison. fourth President. Be-
side him are buried his wife, who died
In lS49, surviving him almost thirty
years, and two nephews. The other
Virginia Monroe and TYLER
lie within 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 birth
day by his close. He died in New
York, poor man, and his remains
were entombed there until in 1858 the
Legislature of Virginia removed them
to Hollywood and placed them in
substantial vault, marked by Gothic
temple on foundation of Virginia
granite. Tyler's grave, near by, is
scarcely marked at all; little mound
with a magnolia tree at the head is
pointed out rs the spot.
The three Tennessee Presidents were
buried at their homes. Jackson at the
Hermitage, near Nashville, his wife be-
side him. A massive monument of
tennessee granite marks the place.
Polk is buried in Nashville ut the old
family homestead. He survived Jack
son only four years. dying in lSl9 The
grave is handsomely incloscd, and a
block twelve feet square by twelve feet
in height bears the inscription. Au-
drew Johnson's grave is at Greenyille,
on a spot selected by himself. His
three sons have erected handsome
monument of marble on 4 base of gran
lite. 1t bears numerous patriotic en-
blems, 4 flag, an eagle. scroll of the
Constitution, etc, while the inscrip-
ton declares: His faith in the peo-
pie never wavered."
Martin Van Buren, lies in the village
cemetery at kindcrhook, N. Y, in a
family lot. his resting place marked by
y modest granite shaft. He died in the
summer of 1868. when the civil war
was at its height. HIS successor. Har-
rison, was buried ut his old home Mt
North Bend, on the Ohio, IA few miles
below Cincinnati. An unfenccd mound,
over 4 fumliy vault, formerly neglect
cd, bat more recently carefully kept,
MAJ X, the spot.
] he dust ol Il .caary Taylor is now
buried in the cemetery at Frankfort.
KY, after several removals. Willard
tillmore's grave is at Forest Lawn
Cemetery, three miles from Buffalo.
and that If PIERCE in the old cemetery
al Concord. n IL. Buchanan is buried
ut We ntwari iiiil Cemetery.
Tho most magnificent of all the |
to tho dead Presidents is
that over the resting plnce of Lincoln, |
In the Oak Ridge Cemetery at Spring |
Held, Ill. 1t WAS dedicated in 1874. |
and cost S250.000.
Garfield is buried in Lake View Gem
etery at Cleveland, where a grand |
has been erected in his |
honor.
Gen. Grant is buried at Riverside
Park, n. T., where monument is to be |
exceeding in cost and beauty |
any in the country.
or the nineteen dead Presidents. two |
only lie in the same place. Two were
buried in Massachusetts three in New |
l ork. five in Virginia. three in Tonnes
see, two in Olio. and one cac, in New |
Pcna .y.vsnia, Kentucky |
and Illinois. Eight lie in private
grounds, or family burial places, as in
The case of the Alamses at Quincy.