The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-09-24
THE TONES OF pREs1pENrs,

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 all the
world. John Adams and John Quincy
Adams lie beneath 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, 3
strange coincidence itself, but stranger
still, it was on the Fourth of july;
1926, just half century after the Dec
laration of Independence which they.
had joined in making. Jefferson. like
his compatriots, was buried in his fam
lily burying ground, at his home in,
Monticello. He had written ON the
fly-leaf of an old account book his
wishes concerning it. Choose his
memorandum said, ''some unfrequent-
ed 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 venerable
oaks, interspersed with some gloomy
evergreens. Appropriate one-hah to
the use of my family, and the other to
strangers, servants, etc. Let the exit
look upon q small and distant part of
the Blue Mountains" These directions
were substantially carried out. A lit
tie inclosure. containing some thirty
graves, stands amid the woods on tho
road that leads from Charlottesville to
Monticello, and granite obelisk, much
clipped by relic hunters, marks the
Grave of the ex-P President
In the same part of Virginia, in
small inclosure 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 1849, surviving him almost thirty
years, and two nephews. The other
Virginia observation-disclosures and Tyler
lie within few feet of each other in
the fine cemetery of Hollywood, at
Richmond. Monroe's death. like those
of John Adams and Jefferson. fell upon
the Fourth Of July. He, too. In 1881,
five years after his great predecessors
and elders, marked the nations birth
day by his close. He died in New.
York, a poor man, and his remains
were entombed there until in 1858 the
Legislature of Virginia removed them
to Hollywood and placed them, in
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 be-
L, <xH
Tennessee granite marks the place.
family homestead. He survived Jack
SON only four years. dying in 1S49. The
grave is handsomely inclosed, and a
block twelve feet square by twelve feet
in height bears the inscription. An
drew Johnson's grave is at Greenville,
on spot selected by himself His
three sons have erected handsome
monument of marble on a base of gran
ite. 1t bears numerous patriotic en-
blems, flag, an eagle. scroll of the
Constitution, ETC., while the inscrip-
ton declares: ':His faith in the peo-
pie never wavered."
Martin Van Buren lies in the village
cemetery at Undertook, N. Y, in q
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, Har-
risou, was buried at his old home Mt
North Bend. on the Ohio. few miles
below Cincinnati. An unfenced mound,
over family vault, formerly neglect
ed, but more recently carefully kept,
marks the spot.
The dust OF Zachary Taylor is now
buriod in the cemetery at Frankfort,
KY, after several removals. Millard
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 Hill Cemetery.
Tho most magnificent of all the
memorials to the dead Presidents is
that over the resting place of Lincoln,
in the Oak Ridge Cemetery at Spring
field, Ill. 1t was dedicated in 1874,
and cost S250,OO0.
Garfield is buried in Lake View Gem
etery at Cleveland, where grand
mausoleum has been erected in his |
honor.
Gen. Grant is buried at Riverside |
Park, N. Y, where monument is to be
erected exceeding in cost and beauty |
any in the country.
OF the nineteen dead Presidents, two
only lie in the same place. Two were
buried in Massachusetts, three in New
York. five in Virginia, three in Tennes-
sec, two in Ohio. and one each in New
Pennsylvania, kentucky
and Illinois. Eight lie in private
grounds. or family burial places, as in
the casa of tho AHamsas .t Ouinov