Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-13
WHERE OUR PRESIDENTS LIE.

Almost All Hurled Near Their Homes
-Honered Resting Places In Vir-
giaia, Tennessee, New York, Elli-
neis, Ohio and Other states.
| 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 albthe
world. John Adams and john
IQuincy Adam lie be meath the Uni
tartan 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 Jetfersoa, a strange coincidence
itself; but stranger still, it was on the
Fourth of July, 1926 just half cen
tuly after the declaration OF American
independence which they had joined
in making. Jefferson, like his com
patriot, was buried in Instantly bury
ling ground, at ms home in Monticello.
he had written on the ty-leaf of an
lold account book his wishes concern
ling 1t.
| Choose" his memorandum said,
some unfreQuented vale IN the park,
where there IS no sound to break the
stiffness but brook that, hpbbling,
winds among the woods. Let it be
among ancient and venerable oaks,
Iinterspersed with some gloomy ever
greens. Appropriate one half 10 the
use OF my family and the other to
strangers, servants, etc. Let the exit
| look upon a small and distant part Of
the Bluc Mountains
These directions we're substantially
carried out. A little inclosure con
tanning some thirteen graves, stands
amid the woods on the road that leads
from Charlottesville to Monticello, and
o granite .obelisk, much Clipped by
relic hunters, marks the grave of the
icx>President
In the same part Of Virginia, is a
lsmall Enclosure, near his home in
IMontpelhr lies the successor OF JEFF
ferson, James Madison, fourth Presi
Ident. Beside him ave buried his wife,
who died in 1919, surviving him al
most thirty wears, and two Dephews
Two other Virginia Presidents, MOn~
roe and Tyler, lie within few feet Of
leach other ia the fine cemetery OF
| Hollywood ct Richmond MonrOe's
death and those OF Adams aud Jeffer>
son fell upon the FoUrth Of July. He,
too, in 1881, five years after his great
predecs ssors and elders, marked the
nations birthday by his Gloss. lie
died in New York . poor man, and
his remaiss we're entombed there un-
til in 1858 the legislature of Virginia
removed them to Hollywood and
placed them in a substantial vault,
marked by q Gothic temple on a fOun,
dation of Virginia granite. Tyier's
grave near by is scarcely marked, at
lall-a little mound, with a magnolia
tree al tie head, is pointed out as the
spot
The three Tennessee Presidents were
buried at their homes; Jackson at The
Hermitage, near Nashville, his wife
beside hjm. A massive monument Of
| Tennessee granite marks the place.
| Polk is buried at Nashville, atthe old
family homestead. He survived Jack
son only four years, dying IN 1S49
The grave is handsomely inclOSed
land block II feet square by II feeg
in hight bears the inscription. Andrew
Jackson's grave is at Greenviile, on q
spot selected by himself. His three
sons have erected handsome monu-
ment OF marble upon base Of gran.
| tie. 1t bears numerous patriotic en-
! blsms, flag, an eagle, B scroll Of the
constitution, etc. while the inscript~
ion declares: His faith in the people
never wavered
Martin Van BureG lies 10 the village
cemetery at Undertook, New York,
in family lot, his resting place mark
ed by a modest granite shaft. lie died
in the summer of 1868, when the civil
war was at Its height. His successor,
| HARRISON, was buried at his old home
at North Bend, on the Ohio, few
miles below Cincinnati An uufenced
mound, over 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. Willard
Flllmore's grave IS at Forest Lawn
cemetery, three Mules from Buffalo,
and that Of Pierce in the old cemetery
at Concord, n. II. Buchanan is bur-
led at Woodward Hill cemetery, Ian
caster.
The most magnificent of all the me
MORALS. to the dead presidents, is that
over the resting place of Lincoln ia
the Oak Ridge cemetery at Springfield,
III. II was dedicated in 1874, and
cost $3.50 600. Garfield is buried in
Lake View cemetery at Cleveland,
where grand mausoleum has b@en
erected ia his honor
Gen. Grant, whom the country yet
deeply mourns, rests in Riverside
Park, N. Y. City, to whose memory,
no doubt, monument equal in mag
nifcence to tbat of Lincoln will be
erected at no distant day.
OF the nineteen dead presidents two
only lie in Que place. Two are buried
IN Massachusetts,, three IN New York,
five in Virginia, three il Tennessee,
two in Ohio, and one each IN New
Hampshire, Pennsy lvania, kentucky
and Illinois. Eight lie in private
| r,vov,pGe On. Ga mi . huriaI al appc o.