Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-07-26
TOABS or THE PRESIDENTS.
"ianee nj the Last Kes,ing-Piace or Men
Most HODored BY the Republic.
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"ihnce NJ the Last Resting. Place or Men
Most HODored BY the Republic.
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The Presidents of the United States
who are dead are nearly all buried in
the neighborhood Of the homes which
they occupied. Wsshington'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
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
stranger still, it was on the Fourth Of
July, 1896, just half century after
the Declaration of independence which
they had joined in making. Jefferson,
like his cOmpatriots. was buried in the
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 unfreluented
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 yenera-
bic oaks, interspersed with some gloomy
evergreens. Appropriate one half to
the use of 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 lit
tie enclosure, containing some thirty
graves. stands amid the woods on the
road that leads from Charlottesville to
Monticello, and granite Obeisk. much
Clipped by relic-hunters, marks the
grave Of the ex-President.
In the same part Of Virginia, in a
small enclosure near his home in Mont
pelier, lies the successor of Jefferson,
James Madison, fourth President. Be-
side him are buried his wife. who died
in lS49, surviving him almost thirty
years. and two nephews. Two other
Virginia observation-disclosures and Ty-
ler-lle within a few feet OF each other
in the fine cemetery of Hollywood, at
Richmond. Monroe death, like those Of
John Adams and Jefferson, fell upon the
Fourth of July. lie, 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 eutombed
there until in 1858 the Legislature of
Virginia removed them to Hollywood
and placed them in substantial vault,
marked by Gothic temple on a founda-
ton Of Virginia granite. Tyler'S grave,
near by, is scarcely marked at all
little mound with a magnolia tree at the
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 him. A massive monument Of
Tennessee granite marks the place.
Polk is buried in Nashville at the old
family homestead. He survived Jack
son only four years, dying in 1919.
The grave is handsomely enclosed, and
/ a block twelve feet square by twelve
feet in height bears the inscription.
Andrew JOhnson's grave is at Green
vile. on a spot selected by himself.
His three sons have erected a hand
some monument of marble upon a base
of granite. Itbears numerous patriotic
emblems-a flag, an eagle. a scroll of
the Constitution, &C., while the in
scription declares His faith in the
people never wayered.'
Martin Van Buren, lies in the village
cemetery at Undertook, \. y. in a
family lot. his restng-place marked by
a modest granite shaft. lie died in the
summer Of 1868, when the civil war
was at its height. His successor, lIar-
riSon, was buried at his old home at
North Bend, on the Ohio, a few miles
below Cincinnati. An unfenced
mound, over family vault, for
merly 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
Fillmore's grave is at Forest-Lawn
cemetery, three miles from Buffalo, and
that Of Pierce in the old cemetery at
Concord, n. II. Buchanan is buried
at Woodward-IIill cemetery.
The most magnificent Of all the me-
MORALS to the dead Presidents is that
over the restiDg-place of Lincoln, in the
Oak-Ridge cemetery, at Springfield, Ill.
|. was dedicated in 1874. and cost
quarter Of a million Of dollars.
Garfield is buried in Lake-View ceme-
terry. at Cleveland, where a grand
mausoleum has been erected in his
honor.
OF the eighteen dead Presidents, two
only lie in one place. Two are buried
in Massachusetts,, two in New York,
five in Virginia, three in Tennessee,
two in Ohio, and one each in New
Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Kentucky.
and Illinois. Eight lie in private
grounds, or family burial-places, as in
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