The weekly Arizona miner., 1885-08-14
BURIAL PLACE OF THE PRESIDENTS


 1he Presidents of the United States who Ere dead are nearly all buried m the neigh borhood If the homes which they occu- pied. Washineton's tcmb. st Mount Ver- non, is Aocwn te ali the world. John Adams and John Quincy Adams lie beneath the Unitarian Church ct Quincy. Massa- ehuetts. The cofins are of lead, placed in cases hswn from solid blocks of granite. Their wires sre buried with them. John Adams died on the s.ms day with Jeffsr . son, . strange coincidence itself. but straa- ger still, it was on the Fourth of July, lsae, just l,alS century after the Declar ation of Indspendence, which they had joined h making Jefferson, like his compatriots, xAs buried in his family buryinG ground, at his homo in Mopticsllo. In the same part a: Virginia, in . small incloeure near his home m Montpelier, liss the successor of Jefferson. James Msdison, fourth Presi- dent Beside him are buried his wife, who died in 1S49, surviving almost thirty years, and two ncphsWx Two other Virginia Observation-Disclosures and Tylsr-he within few feet of each other in the fine ceme- tery of Hollowood, st Richmond. Mon- roe's de4th, Eke those of John Adams and Jeferson, fell upon the Fourth of July. He too. in 1881, five yean after his great prsdecsbrs and elders, marked the nations birth day by his close. He died in New York poor man, and his remains were en- tombed there until 1858; the Legislaturs of Virginia removed them to Hollywood and placed them Tn substantial vault. marked by Gothic temple on . foundation of Vr- gini granite. Tyler.s grave, near by. is scarcely marked at all. A httie mound with . magnolia tree at the head is pointed out as the spot.
 The three Tennessee Presidents were buried st their homes. Jackson at the Hermitage near Nashville, his wife beside him. A msssire monument of Tennessee granite marks the place. Polk is buried in Nashvills, st the old family homestead. He survived Jackson only ysars, dying in Is49. The grave is handsomely enclosed, and block twelve feet square by l2 feet in night bears the inscription. Andrew John son's grave is at Greenville, on spot selected by himself. His three sons have erected handsome monument of marble on base of granite. It bears numerous patriotic emblems, . flag, an eagle, . scroll of the constitution, etc., while the inscrip- tion declares: s'Hn faith in the people never wavered"
 Martin Van Buren lies in the village cemetry st Kinderhook, New York, in family lot, his resting place marked by modest granite shaft He died in the sum- mer of 1863, when the civil war was at its night His successor, Harrison, was buried at his old home at North Bend, Ohio, . few miles below Cincinnati. An un!enced mound, over family vault, formerly neg lected, but more recently carefully kept, marks the spot.
 The dust of Zachary Taylor is now buried in the cemety at Frankford, Kentucky, after several removals. Willard Fillmore's grave is st Forest Lawn cemetry. three miles from Buffalo, and that of Pierce in the old cemetry in Concord, N. H. Buch- ansn n buried at Woodward Hill Gene tery
 The most magnificent of all the memorials to the dead Presidents is that over the resting place of Lincoln, in the Oak R dge cemetery, at Springfield, Illinois. 1t was dedicated in 1874. and cost e250, coo
 Garfield IS buried in Lake Veiw cemetery, ct Cleveland, where grand mausoleum has been erected in his honor.
 Of the eighteen dead Presidents, two only lie in the same place. Two were buri- cd in Massachusetts, two in New York, five in Virginia, three in Tennessee, two in Ohio, and one each in New Hampshire. Pennsyl- vania, Kentucky and Illinois. Eight lie in private grounds or family burial places, e .. .h. >..o eha AS.->. .t 0r,prv