The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-03
THE TONES OF THE GREAT
Where the Bodies of the Dead Presidents are
Resting--4 National MansolsuDs to be
Erected Near Washington.

| ReSftnD--4 National MdaS0ieuDs to be
Erected Near Washington.
Washington correspondence: National
cemeteries are provided for the dead sol
diers throughout the United States, and
the distinguished dead in England are laid
away in Westminster Abbey. project is
now on foot to provide a national manso-
leum near Washington for our deceased
presidents and n bill has been prepared to
be introduced to the next session OF con-
gress to provide for the proposed presiden-
tial cemetery and memorial hall where
statues could be erected to chief magis-
trates OF the nation have passed away.
At present some OF them have neither n
slab nor monument to mark their
graves. Gen. Harrison's body rests in Il
brick vault on the top OF little hill five
| miles west of Cincinnati. A big fat stone
lies on its top, but there is no inscription,
and the only beauty about the grave is the
fine trees which surround it with their per
petual green. John Tyler's body is buried
in the Hollywood cemetery at Richmond,
Va, and has not a stone or bust to mark
its resting place. Ten yards away is Pres
ident Monroes grave but he was not buried
here until after the centennial anniversary
OF his birth.
Monroe waited twenty-seven years for an
appropriate tomb, and he now rests in II
vault over which is a large granite sarco-
phagus, and on it an inscription testifying
that it was erected "as an evidence of the
affections of Virginia for her good and hon
ored son."
Van Buren's grave, Notwithstanding his
wealth, is now bleak and bare, without a
a 81, = ipaarb. nd n
ago the little granite shaft which stood over
the remains of Thomas Jefferson has been
mutilated and its inscription destroyed by
relic-hunters. Its gates were rusty and ITS
appearance that of ruin.
George Washington has been twice bur-
led, and Henry Clay showed one day in the
senate piece of the first coffin. Mount
Vernon is now his tombstone and the sar-
cophagus in which he lies is a brick vault
overlooking the Potomac. 1t has but one
word on it, and that is Washington"
The two Adamses are buried in the Oni
tartan church at Quincy. When John
Adams died, his son, then president, OBJ
tanned deed to n burial lot in the cellar OF
the church, fourteen feet square, and in
this he built n granite tomb for himselfand
his father. Here lie the two presidents and
their wives, and on the walls of the church
above are long subscriptions commemorative
of their lives and worth.
The most expensive of tn presidential
monuments are those OF Lincoln and Gar
field. Lincoln's monument at Springfield
cost S206, $50, and the ground devoted to
that of Garfield is said to be worth $780,
600. and the monument is to cost 81 so, 600
more.
There has been number OF stories pub
lished in regard to the grave OF President
Tyler in that he was first buried at Wash
ington and his body afterward removed
from place to place. The truth is that he
has never been buried, but was brought,
Immediately on his death at the capital,
to his fathers old farm in Kentucky, and
there put into vault. His body has lain
there ever since, and there is gray granite
of the general.
Frank Pierce has monument OF Italian
marble at Concord, and strange to say,
Pierce, instead OF Franklin Pierce, as he
was known to the country 1t has no long
inscription, and is like the monument OF
Willard Fillmore at Buffalo, simple to an
extreme. James Buchanan lies in vault
in the Lancaster (Pa.) cemetery, and
chronicles his life in the date OF his birth
and death and the fact that he was the fif-
tenth president OF the United States. 1t
takes twenty-three lines to writes the in
scription on Folks tombstone, and it lies
in Nashville, twelve miles away from An
drew Jackson, much greater man, who
sums his record up in three. Jackson's
body lies in his garden at the Hermitage
beside his wife. The monument above
them is OF Tennessee limestone.