Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-08-22
Where the President are Buried.

VIM Wv NNeeu olO hOUAlJ Sh DuiiCu
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 beneath the
Unitarian church at Quincy, Mass.
The collins were Of lead placed in
cases hewn from solid blocks of gran
lite. Their wives are buried with
them. John Adams died on the
same day with Jefferson, a strange
coincidence itself; but, stranger still,
it was on the 4th of July lS26-,just a
half century after the Declaration
of American Independence which
they had joined in making. Jeffer-
son, like his compatriot, was buried
in his family burying-ground, at his
home in Monticello. He had written
on the fiy-leaf of an old account-book
his wishes concerning it.
Choose" his memorandum said,
"some unfrequent 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
greens. Appropriate one half to the
use cf 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 inclosure, con-
tanning some thirty graves, stands
amid the woods on the road that
leads from Charlottesville to Mon
ticellO, and granite Obelisk, much
Clipped by relic hunters, marks the
grave of the eX-President.
In the same part of Virginia, in a
smallinclOsure nearthe housein Mont
pelier, lies the successor of Jefferson,
James Madison, fourth President.
Beside him are buried his wife who
died in 1S49, surviving him almost
thirty years, and two nephews. Two
other Virginia President, Monroe and
Tyler, lie within a few feet of each
other in the fine cemetery of Holly
wood, at Richmond. Monroe's death
ami those of John Adams and Jeffer-
son fell upon the Fourth of July. He
too, in 1881, five years after his great
predecessors and elders, marked the
nations birthday by his close. He
died in New York poor man, and
his remains were entombed there
until 1858 the Legislature of Virginia
removed them to Hollywood and
placed them in a substantial vault,
marked by Gothic temple on a
foundation of Virginia granite.
Tyler's grave near by is scarcely
marked ut all; little mound, with
a magnolia tree at the head, is point
ed out as the spot.
The three Tennessee Presidents
were buried at their homes; Jackson
at the Hermitage, near Nashville, his
wife beside him. A massive mOnu-
ment of Tennessee marble marks the
place. Polk is buried in Nashville,
at the old homestead. He survived
Jackson only four years dying in
1919. The grave is handsomely in
closed, and a block twelve feet square
by twelve feet in height bears the in
scription. Andrew JohnsOn's grave
is at Greenville, on a spot selected by
himself. His three sons have erected
a handsome monument of marble
upon a base of granite. 1t bears
numerous patriotic emblems, flag
an eagle, a scroll of the Constitution
ETC., while the inscription declares
ellis faith in the people never waver
ed"
f Martin Van Buren, lies in the vii
5 lage cemetery at KindernoOk, New
: York, in a family lot, his resting
5 place marked by modest granite
| shaft. He died in the summer o
l.. 1863, when the civil war was at it
; height. His successor, Harrison
3 was buried at his old home at Nortl
, Bend, on the Ohio, few miles below
Y Cincinnati. An unfenced mound
: over a family vault, formerly neglect
: ed, but more recently carefully kept
. marks the spot.
e The dust Of Zachary Taylor is nov
0 buried near Louisville, after severa
= removals. Willard Fillmore's gray
:, is at Forest Lawn Cemetery, tire
e miles from Buffalo, and that of Pierc
V in the old cemetery at Concord, N. II
|, Buchanan is buried at Woodwar
: Hill Cemetery, Lancaster.
a The most magnificent of all th