The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-23
Tombs of the Presidents.

The presidents of the United States
who, are dead are nearly all buried in
the neighborhood of their 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 cofhns
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,
strange coincidence itself, but stran-
ger still, it was on the Fourth of July,
1926, just a half century after the
Declaration of Independence which
they had joined in making.
Jefferson, like his compatriots, was
buried in his family bury1ng ground, lat
his home in Monticello. He had writ
ten on the fy-leaf of an old account
book his wishes concerning it,.
Choose" his memorandum said, some
"unfrequented vale in the park, where
there isno 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 evergreens. Appropri-
ate one-half to the use, of my family,
and the Others to strangers, servants,
etc. Let the exit look upon small
and distant part of the Blue Noun
tains." These directions were substan--
TALLY carried out A little incIosure,
containing some thirty graves, stands
amid the woods on the road that leads
from Charlottesville to Monticello, and
agranite obelisk, much Clipped by relic
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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 are buried his wife, who
died in 1S49, surviving him almost
thirty years, and two nephews. Two
other Virginia Presidents Monroe and
Tyler-lie within a few feet of each
other in the fine cemetery of Holly
like 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 a poor man, and
his remains were entombed there
until in 1858 the Legislature of Vir-
gina removed them to Hollywood
and placed them in substantial
vault, marked by Gothic temple on
foundation of Virginia granite. Ty-
ler's grave, near by, is scarcely marked
at all; a little mound with q magnolia
tree at the head is pointed out as the
spot.
The three Tennessee Presidents were
h,1ria6 OF boiT b0Yoooc To Of fbo
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. Hesurvived 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-
Greenville, on spot selected by himself.
His three sons have erected a hand
some monument Of marble on a base
otto emblems, a flag, an eagle. scroll
scription declares: ellis faith in the
people never wavered."
Martin Van Buren lies in the village
cemetry at Kinderhook, N. Y, in
family lot, his resting place marked by
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 unfenced
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. Milard
Fillmore's grave is at Forest Lawn
Cemetery, three miles from Buffalo,
and that of Pierce in the old cemetery
at Concord, N. FL. 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, ILL., 1t was dedicated in 1874,
and cost S25O.OOO.
Garfield is buried in Lake View Gem
etery, at Cleveland, where a ground
mausoleum 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