Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-08-19
Tombs of the Presidents.

| Ine presidents or the United States
who are dead are nearly all buried In
the neighborhood Of the homes
which they occupied. Washington.
tomb at Mount Vernon, is known to
all the world. John Adams and John
Quincy Adams lie under the Unitarian
church, at Quincy, Mass. The coffins
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, 1926,
just a half century after the Declara-
tiOn of Independence which they had
joined in making. jefferson, like his
cOmpatriots, was buried in his family
burying ground, at his home in Month
cello. He had written on the fly.leaf
OF an old account book his wishes con-
cerning it. "ChoOse," T" his memOran-
DUN said, ''some unfrequented vale in
the park, where there is no sound to
break the stiffness but a brook that
bubbling winds among the woods. Let
it be among ancient and venerable
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
little iDclOsure, containing some thirty
graves. stands amid the woods on the
road that leads from Charlottesville to
Monticello, ard granite obelisk,
much Clipped by relic hunters, marks
the grave of the ex-president.
In the same part of Virginia, in a
small inclOsure Eear his home In Mont
pelier, lies the successor of jefferson,
James Madison, fourth president. Be-
side him are buried his wife, who died
In 1919, surviving him almost thirty
years, and two nephews. Two other
Virginia observation-disclosures and
Tyler-lie within a few feet of each
other in the fine cemetery of Holly
wood, at Richmond. MOnrOe's death,
like those of John Adams and Jeffer-
son, fell upon the Fourth OF July. He,
to-, in 1881, five years after bis great
predecessors and elders marked the
nations birthday by his close. He
died IN New York poor man, and his
remains were entombed there until in
1853 the legislature of Virginia IT,
moved them to Hollywood and placed
them IN a substantial vault, marked by
Gothic temple on a foundation of
Virginia granite. Tyler's grave, near
by, is scarcely marked at all; little
mound with 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 1849. The
grave is handsomely inclosed. and
block twelve feet square by twelve feet
in height bears the inscription. An
drew Jackson's grave is at Greenvllle,
on a spot selected by himself. His
three sons have erected a handsome
monument Of marble on base of
granite. 1t bears numerous patriotic |
emblems, a flag, an eagle, scroll of
the Constitution, ETC., while the in
scription declares: "His faith in the |
people never wavered."
Martin Van Buren, lies in the village |
at Undertook, n. Y, 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 below Cincinnati. An unfeDced /
over family vault, formerly
but more recently carefully
kept, marks the spot.
The dust of Zachary Taylor, is now
buried In the cemetery at Fra nkfOrd,
ky.. after several removals. This Is
4 mistake; the remains are buried in
-he family lot, four or five miles from
Louisville, Ky.) Millard Fillmore's
grave is at Forest Lawn cemetery,
three miles from Buffalo, and that of
Pierce In the old cemetery at Concord,
Y. III. Buchanan is buried at Wood
ward Hill cemetery,
The most magnificent of all the
to the dead presidents is
hat over the resting place of Lincoln,
n the Oak Ridge cemetery at Spring
ield, III. 1t was dedicated IN 1874, and
cost $3.50, 900.
Garfield is buried in Lake View
at Cleveland, where a grand
has been erected in his
lonor.
Of the eighteen dead presidents, two
'nly lie in the same place. Two were
buried in Massachusetts, two in New
fOrk, five in Virginia, three in Ten
lessee. two in Ohio, and one each in
Sew Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ken
ucky and illinois. Eight lie in private
or family burial places. as in
he case of the AdaInses at Quincy.