The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1885-11-13
TOmbs of the Presidents.

The presidents of the United States
who are dead are nearly all buried III
the neighborhood other homes which
they occupied. WaohingtOn'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 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 Jefferson,
u strange coincidence itself, but Stran-
Ger still, it was on the Fourth of July,
1926, lust a half century after the
Declaration of independence which
they had Joined in making.
Jefferson, like his COmpatriOts, was
, buried in his family burylng ground, at
his home in Monticello. He had writ
ten on the hy-leaf of an old account
book his wishes concerning 1t.
Choose" his memorandum said some
"~unfrequented vale in the park, where
there isnO sound to break thestillness
but a brook that bubbling winds among
the woods. Let it be among ancient
and venerable oaks, i~nterspersed with
some gloomy eVergreens. ApprOprl'
ate One-half to the use of my family,
and the others to strangers, servants,
etc. Let the exit look upon a small
and distant part OF the Blue Noun
tains." These directions were substan-
TALLY carried out. A little mciOsure,
containing some thirty graves, stands
amid the woods on the road that leads
from Charlottesville to Monticello, and
agranite Obelisk, much Clipped b yrelic-
hunters, marks the grave of the eX-
president.
In the same part of Virginia, in a
small inClOsure near his hOmein Mont
pelier, lies the successor of Jefferson,
James Madison, fourth President.
Beside him ore buried his wife, who
died in lS49, surviving him almost
thirty years, and two nephews. Two
other Virginia observation-disclosures and
Tyler-lie within a few feet of each
other inthe fine cemetery of Holly
wood, at Richmond. Monroe's death,
like those of John Adams and Jetfer-
son, fell upon the Fourth ofJuly. He,
too, in 1881, five years after his great
predecessors and elders, marked the
nations birthday by his close. He
died in New York q poor man, and
his remains were entombed there
until in 1858 the Legislature of Vir-
gina removed them to Hollywood
and placed them in a substantial
vault, marked by q Gothic temple on
a foundation of Virginia granite. Ty-
ler's grave, nearby, is scarcely marked
at all; O 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 him. A massive monument of
Tennessee granite marks the place.
Polk is buried in Nashville at the old
family homestead. He survived Jack
son only four years, dying in 1S49.
The grave is handsomely inclosed,
and a block twelve feet square by
twelve feet in height bears the inscrip-
ton. Andrew Jackson's grave is at
Greenville, on a spot selected by himself.
His three sons have erected a hand
some monument Of marble on q base
of granite. 1t bears numerous patri-
otto emblems, a flag, an eagle, a scroll
of the Constitution, ETC., while the in
scription declares: ellis faith in the
people never wavered."
Martin Van Buren, lies in the village
cemetery at Undertook, N. Y, in a
family lot, his resting place marked by
a modest granite shaft. He died in
the summer of 1868, when the civil
war was at it's height. His successor,
Harrison, was buried at his old nome
at North Bend, on the Ohio, a few
miles below Cincinnati. An unfenced
mound, over a family 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. Milard
Fillmore's grave is at Forest Lawn
Cemetery, three miles from Buffalo,
and that of Pierce in the old cemetery
at Concord, N. III. Buchanan is bur-
led at Woodward Hill Cemetery.
The most magnificent of all the
memorials to the dead Presidents is
that over the resting place of Lincoln,
in the Oak Ridge Cemetery at Spring
field, I'LL. 1t was dedicated in 1874,
and cost $25O,OOO.
Garfield is buried in Lake View Gem
etery, at Cleveland, where q ground
m%ausoleum has been erected in his
honor.
OF the eighteen dead Presidents, two
only lie in the same place. Two were
buried in Massachusetts,, two in New
York, five in Virginia, three in Tennes-
see, two in Ohio, and one each in New
Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Kentucky
and Illinois. Eight lie in private
grounds, or family burial places, as in
the case of the Adamses at Quincy.
The Maharajah of Travancore is