Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-08-13
WHERE OUR PRESIDENTS LIE.
Almost All Buried Near Their Homes
-HOnered Resting Places in VIr-
giafa, Tennessee. New York. Hill
neIs. Ohio and other 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 Adam lie be meath the uni
tartan church at Quincy, Mass. The
collins are oil lead, placed in cases
hewn from solid blocks of granite.
Their wives are buried with them
John Adams died on the same day
with Jeffersoa, a strange coincidence
itself; but stranger still, it was on the
Fourth of July 1926 -just half CEN
fury after the declaration OF American
independence which they had Joined
in making. Jefferson, like his com
patriot, was buried liz his family bury
ing ground, at his horne in Monticello.
he had written on the fy-leaf Of an
old account book his wishes concern
ing it.
Choose" his memorandum said,
''some unfrequented vale in the park,
where there is no sound to break the
stiffness but brook that, bubbling,
winds among the woods. Let it be
among ancient and venerable oaks,
interspersed with some gloomy ever
green's. Appropriate one 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. little Enclosure con ,
tanning some thirteen graves, stands
amid the woods on the road that leads
from Charlottesville to Monticello, and
a granite obelisk, much Clipped by
relic hunters, marks the grave OF the
ex>President.
Ia the same part of Virginia, is a
small Enclosure, near his home in
Montpellir, lies the successor of JEFF
ferson, James Madison, fourth Presi
dent. Beside him are buried his wife,
who died in 1S49, surviving him al
most thirty wears, and two nephews.
Two other Virginia Presidents, Mon~
roe and Tyler, lie within few feet Of
each other la the fine cemetery of
| Hollywood at Richmond. Monroe's
death and those OF Adams and Jeffer>
son fell upon the Fourth of July, He,
too, in 1881, five years after has great
predecessors and elders, marked the
nations birthday by his Gloss. He
died ID New York u poor man, and
| his remains were entombed there I'M
til in 1858 the legislature of Virginia
removed them to Hollywood and
placed them in g substantial vault,
marked by Gothic temple on a foun-
dalton Of Virginia granite. Tyler's
grave near by is scarcely marked, at
ala little mound, with a magnolia
tree at tie head, is pointed out as the
spot
The three Tennessee Presidents were
buried at their homes; Jackson at tho
Hermitage, near Nashville, his wife
beside hina. A massive monument of
Tennessee granite marks the place.
Polk is buried at Nashville, at the old
family homestead. He survived Jack
son only four years, dying in 1849.
The grave IS handsomely inclOsed,
and block IL feet square by - feel
| IN hight bears the inscription. Andrew
Jackson's grave is at Greenville, on a
spot selected by himself. His three
sons have erected a handsome m0nu-
ment Of marble upon base Of gran
| lte- 1t bears numerous patriotic en-
blems, flag, an eagle, a scroll of the
constitution. etc, while the inscript~
ion declares: His faith in the people
never wavered."
Martin Van Buren, lies in the village
cemetery at Undertook, New York,
in family lot, his resting place mark
ed 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 home
at North Bend, on the Ohio, a few
miles below Cincinnati. An unfe0ced
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. Milliard
FIllmore's grave is at Forest Lawn
cemetery, three miles from Buffalo,
and that of Pierce in the old cemetery
at Concord, n. H Buchanan is bur-
led at Woodward Hill cemetery, Ian
caster.
The most magnificent of all the me-
morials.t to the dead presidents, is that
over the resting place OF Lincoln in
the Oak Ridge cemetery at Springfield.
LII. IL WAS uSuICdtSu Ill 1CIf, c1ud
cost $3.50. 900. Garfield is buried in
Lake View cemetery at Cleveland,
where a grand mausoleum has bcen
erected in his honor.
Gen. Grant, whom the couatry yet
deeply mourns, rests in Riverside
Park, n. Y. City, to whose memory,
no doubt, q monument equal in mag
nifcence to that of Lincoln will be
erected at no distant day.
OF the nineteen dead presidents two
only lie in one place. Two are buried
IN Massac husetts, three in New York,
five in Virginia. thrte 10 Tennessee,
two in Ohio, and one each In New
Hampshire, Pennsylvania, kentucky
and Illinois Eight lie in private
grounds, or family burial places, as
the case of the Adamses at Quincy.
Her Management.
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