The Portland daily press., 1885-08-01
ToMBs OF THE PRESIDENTS.
Where Reposes the Dust OF Eighteen
Rulers OF Our Nation.
lSt. Louls Glohe.nemoerat.l !


The Presidents of the United States who
are dead are nearly all buried in the neigh
borhoed of the 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 Unita-
rian Church, at Quincy, Mass The cofins
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, a strange coincidence
itself, but stranger still, it was on the
Fourth Of July, 1896, just a half century
after the Declaration of Independence
which they had joined in making. Jefferson,
like his compatriots, was buried in his fam
lily burying ground. at his home in Month
cello. He had written on the fy-leaf of an
old account book his wishes concerning it,
Choose" his memorandum said, "some un-
frequented vale in the park, where there Is
no sound to break the stiffness but brook
that bubbling winds among the woods. Let
1t be among ancient and venerable oaks, in
terspersed with some gloomy eyergreens.
Appropriate one-half to the use of my fam
lily, and the other to strangers, servants, etc.
Let the exit look upon a small and distant
part of the Blue Mountains" These direc-
tions 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
a granite obelisk, much Clipped 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 1s49, surviving him almost
thirty years, and two nephews. Two other
Virginia observation-disclosures and Tyler-lie
within few feet of each oGnc- in the fine
cemetery of Hollywood at RichmOntsss Mon
r0e's death, like those of John Adams ard
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
a poor man, and his remains were entombed
there until 1858 the Legislature of Virginia
removed them to Hollywood and placed
them In substantial vault, marked by 8
gothic temple on foundation of Virginia
granite. Iyler'S grave, near by, is scarcely
marked at all. A little mound, with mag
spot.
The three Tennessee presidents were bur
led at their homes, jackson at the Hermit
age, near Nashville, his wife beside him. A
massive, monument of Tennessee granite
marks the place. Polk is buried in Nashville
at the family homestead. He survived Jack
son.only four years, dying in 1S49 The grave
is handsomely inclosed, and block u feet
square by II feet IN height bears the in
scription. Andrew JOhnson's grave is at
Greenville,. on a spot selected by himself. His
three sons have erected handsome monu-
ment of marble on base of granite. 1t
bears numerous patriotic emblems, flag, an
eagle, a scroll of the Constitution, etc.,
while the inscription declars :-"fiis faiittii in
the peole never wavered."
Martin Van Buren, lies in the village GEM
etery at Undertook, N Y, in a family lot.
his resting place marked by modest granite
shaft. He died in the summer of 1868, when
the civil war was at its height. His success
sor, Harrison, was buried at his old home at
North Bend, on the Ohio, few miles below
Cincinnati. An unfenced mound, over
family yalt formerly neglected, but more re-
Gently carefully kept, marks the spot
The dust of Zachary Taylor is now buried
in the cemetery at Frankfort, KY, after sew
eral removals. Il Millard FillmOre's grave Is at
Forest Lawn cemetery three miles from Buff
falo, and that of Pierce in the old cemetery
at Concord, N. III. Buchanan is buried 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
and cost $250,000.
Garfield is buried in Lake View cemetery
at Cleveland, where a grand mausoleum has
been erected in his honor.
VI 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 Hampshire, Pennsyl.
vanla, Kentucky and Illinois. Eight lie In
private grounds or family burial places, as in
the case OF the Adamses at Quincy.