The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-09-18
THE ToMBs OF PRESIDENTS
Where the Remains Of washington,
Jefferson, Monroe, Tyler, Linz
coin. and Others Lie.

coin, and Others Lie.
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 al the world. John
Adams and John Quincy Adams he be
meath 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 ,Jeffer-
son, a strange coincidence itself but
stranger STILL It was on the Fourth Of
July, 1895, just o half century after
the Declaration Of Independence which
they had joined in making Jefferson,
like his compatriots, was buried I'm his
family burying ground. at his home In
Monticello. He had written on the 5y-leAf
OF an old account book his wishes con
cerRing ie. Choose, - his memorandum
said, some unfreQuented vale in The
park, where there is no sound TO break
the stiffness but a brook that buhhlinn
winds among the woods Let IL be
among ancient and venerable oaks. inter
sPersed with some gloomy evergreens.
Appropriate one-han to the use Of my
family, and the other to strangers, serv-
ants, etc. Let the exit look upon a small
and distant part Of the Blue Mountains ("
These directions were substantially
carried out. A little inclosure containing
some thirty graves. stands amid the woods
on the road that leads from Charlottsville
70 Monticello. and granite obelisk, much
clipped by relic hunters, marks the grave
of the President
In the same part Of Virginia In a small
inclosure near his home in Montpelier
lies the successor OF Jefferson, James
Madison, fourth President Beside him
are buried his wife, who died in lS4q, sur
viving him almost thirty years, and two.
nephews. The other Virginia Presidents
Monroe and Tyler-lie III thin a few feet
Of each other in the fine cemetery Of Hol-
lywood, at Richmond. Mouroe's death,
Ike those of John Adams and jefferson
fell upon the Fourth Of July. He. too.
IN 1881, five years after his great prede-
cessOrs and elders, marked the nations
birthday by his close. He died in New
York, poor man, and his remains We're
entombed there until In 1858 the IeEisla-
ture of Virginia removed them TO Holly
wood and placed them in a substantial
vault, marked 10y a Gothic temple on a
foundation of Virginia granite Tyler's
grave, near by, Is scarcely marked at all:
q little mound with magnolia tree at
the head is pointed ont as the spot.
The three Tennessee Presidents were
buried at their homes Jackson at his
Hermitage. near Nashville. his wife be-
side him. a massive monument Of Ten
.nessee granite marks the place. Polk Is
buried in Nashville at the old family
homestead He survived Jackson only
four years, dying in 1859. The grave is
handsomely enclosed. and a block twelve
feet square by twelve feet in height bears
the Inscription. Andrew JohnsOn's g grave
Is at Greeuville on a spot selected bv him
self His three sons have erected a hand
some monument of marble on a base OF
granite. 1t bears numerous patriotic
emblesns a flag. an eagle, a scroll of the
Constitution, etc, while the inscription.
declares His faith In the people never
wavered."
Martin Van Buren lies in the village
cemetery at Undertook, y. V, in a fam
lily lot. his resting place marked by a
modest granite shaft. He died in the
summer of 1853, when the civil war was at
its height His successor, Harrison, was
buried at his old home at North Benz. on
the Ohio, few miles below Cincinnati.
An unfenced mound. over a family vault.
formerly neglected, but more recently
carefully kept, marks the spot
The dust OF Zachary Taylor IS now
buried in the cemetery at Frankford, KY.
aIter several removals Mulard Filmore's
grave is at Forrest Lawn CeTneterv. Buff
falo, and that OF Pierce in the old cerue-
teTy at Concord, y. II. buchanan Is
buried at Woodward lin Cemetery.
The most magnificent of all the memor-
iais TO the dead Presidents is that over
the resting place OF lincoln. in the Oak
Ridge Cemetery at Springfield, HI Il
was dedicated in 1874, and cost S55O.09a-
Garfield is buried in Lake View Gem
etery, at Cleveland, where a grand maus-
oleum 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 Tennessee.
two in Ohio, and one each in New Hamp-
shire, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Him
ols. Eight lie in private grounds. or family
burial places, as in the case OF the
Adamses at Quincy.