Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-21
THE BURIAL-PLACES
or THE DEAD PRESIDENTS or THE
UNITED STATES
JeHerson's Memorandum Request-As
1EontiCeElO-Other virginia Presidents
Van Buren,, Taylor. Harrison
-Linooln-Garheld.
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The presidents Of 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 be-
meath 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 Jeffer-
son, a strange coincidence itself. but
stranger still, it was on the Fourth Of
July. 1926, Just a half century after the
Declaration of Independence which they
had Joined in making. Jefferson, like his
compatriots, was buried in his family
buryiDg 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
u~nfrequented vale in the park. where there
is no sound to break the stiffness but a
brook that bubbling winds among the
woods Let it be among ancient and ven
cradle 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 a small and distant part of
the Blue mountains. %These directions
were substantially 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 a 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, surviv-
ing him almost thirty years, and two
nephews. The other Virginia presidents
Monroe and Tyler lie within a few feet
of each other in the fine cemetery of Hol.
lywood, 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 prede.
cessors and elders, marked the nations
birthday by his close. He died in New
York, a poor man. and his remains were
entombed there until in 1858 the legisla-
ture Of Virginia removed them to Holly
wood and placed them in q substantial
vault. marked by a Gothic temple on a
foundation Of Virginia granite. Tyler's
grave, near by, is scarcely naked at all; a
little mound with a 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 be-
side MIN. A massive monument of Ten
nessee granite marks the place. Polk is
buried in Nashville at the old family
homestead. He survived jackson only
four years, dying in 1S49. The grave is
handsomely iuciUsed. uud u 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 a
handsome monument of marble on q base
OF granite. 1t bears numerous patriotic
emblems, a flag, an eagle, a scroll of the
constitution, ETC., while the inscription
declares: "His faith in the people never
wavered.
Martin Van Buren, lies in the village
cemetery at Undertook, N. Y, in fam
lily lot. his 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, Harrison,
was buried at his old home at North Bend,
on the Ohio, a few miles below Cincin.
natl An unfenced mound, over a fam.
lily vault, formerly neglected, but more
recently carefully kept. marks the spot
The dust of Zachary Taylor is now
buried in the cemetery at Frankfort, KY.
after several removals. Willard Fill
mores grave is at Forest Lawn cemetery,
three miles from Buffalo. and that o.
Pierce in the old cemetery at Concord, N.
II. Buchanan is buried at Woodward Hill
cemetery.
The most magnificent of all the me
morals to the dead presidents is that ovei
the resting place of Lincoln, in the Oal
Ridge cemetery at Springfield, Ills. /
was dedicated in 1874, and cost $3.50, 600
Garfield is buried in Lake View GENE
terry, at Cleveland, where a granC
mausoleum has been erected in his honor
of the eighteen dead presidents, tw,
only lie in the same place. Two wer,
buried in Massachusetts,, two in New
York. five in Virginia, threein Tennessee
two in Ohio, and one each in New Hamp
shire, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and ILL
nOis. Eight lie in private grounds, OF
family burial places, as in the case of the
Adamses at Quincy.