The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-08-05
.l,v carried ont A little enclosure,

ally carried out A little enclosure,
containing some thirty graves.
stands amid the woods on the road
that leades from Charlottesville to
Monticello, and a granite obelisk,
much chipped by relic hunters,
marks the grave of the Ex-presi-
dent.
In the same part of Virginia, in a
small enclosure near his home in
Montpelier, lies the successor OF
Jefferson, james Madison, fourth
president. Beside him are buried
his wife, who died in 1849, suryiy-
ing him almost thirty years, and
two nephews. Two other Virginia
presidents, Monroe and Tyler, lie
within few feet of each other in
the cemetary of Hollywood ,at Rich
mond. Monroe's death and those Of
John Adams and Jefferson fell upon
the Fourth of July. He, too, in 1881,
five years after his great predecs-
sors and elders, marked the nations
birthday by his close. He died in
New York poor man, and his re-
mains were entombed there until in
1858 the Legislature of Virginia re-
moved them to Hollywood and pla-
ced them in q substantial vault,
marked by gothic temple on a
foundation of Virginia granite. Ty-
ler's grave near by is scarcely mark
ed at 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
monument of Tennessee granite
marks the place. Polk is buried in
Fashville. at the old family home
stead. He survived Jackson only
four years, dying IS49. The grave
is handsomely enclosed and block
twelve feet square by twelve feet in
height bears the inscription. An
drew Jackson's grave it at Green.
vile, on a spot selected by himself
His three sons have erected hand
some monument of marble upon a
base of granite. 1t bears numerous
patriotic emblems, flag, an eagle,
scroll of the Constitution, etc.
while the inscription declares His
faith in the people never wavered.
Martin Van Buren lies In the vii
lage cemetary at Kinderhook, New
York, in family lot his resting
place marked by a modest granite
shaft. He 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 be.
low Cincinnati. An unfenced mound
over a family vault. formerly neg.
lected, but more recently carefully
kept, marks the spot.
The dust of Zachary Taylor is
now buried in the cemetary al
Frankfort, KY, after several remov
ais. Millard Fillmore's grave is al
Forest Lawn Cemetary, three miles
from Buffalo, and that of Pierce in
the old cemetary at Concord, N. II
Buchanan is buried at Woodward
Hill Cemetary Lancaster.
The most magnificent of all the
memorials to the dead Presidents is
that over the resting placeof Lincoln
in the Oak Ridge Cemetery at Spring
field, Ill. 1t was dedicated in 1874
and cost q quarter of a million dol
lars. Garfield is buried at Lake
View Cemetery, at Cleveland, where
grand mausoleum has been erec.
ted 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, Pennsyl.
vania, Kentucky, and Illinois
Eight lie in private grounds, or fam.
lily burial places. as in the case OF
| the Adamses at Quincy.