The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-11-20
Tombs of the Presidents.

The presidents OF the United States
who are dead are nearly all buried N
the neiehborhood other 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 al Quincy, Mass. The collins
are OF lead. placed in cases hewn ffoa
SOLID blocks OF granite. Their wives
are buried with them. John Adams
died on the same day with Jefferson,
a strange coincidence itself, but straa-
ger srin. Il was ON the Fourth OF July,
1926, inst a hall century after the
Declaration OF Independence which
they had Joined in making.
Jefferson. like his compatriots, vas
buried in his family buryng ground, at
his home in Monticello. He had writ
ten on the fly-leaf OF an old account
book his wishes concerning 1t.
Choose" lis memorandum said some
euntrequented vale in the park, where
: there isno sound to break thestlllness
but a brook that bubbling winds among
the woods. Let il be among ancient
and venerable oaks, ln~terspersed with
some gloomy evergreens. Approprl-
/ ate one-half to the use OF my family,
and the Others to strangers, servants,
etc. Let the exit look upon a small
and distant part OF the Blu Noun
tains." Thesedirections were substan-
italy carried out. A little inclosure,
( containing some thirty graves, stands
{ amid the woods ontle ro&dthatleads
from Charlottesville to Monticello. and
asranite ohelisll, much eli pledhyr relic
hunters, marks the grave OF the eG-
president.
In the same part OF Virginia, in q
small inclostlre near his homein Mont
! pelier, lies the successor OF jefferson,
James Madison. fourth President.
Beside him are buried his wife, who
died III IS49. surviving him almost
thirty wears, and two 3eptiews. Two
Other Virginia Observation-Disclosures
Tyler-lie within q few feet OF each
other inthe fine cemetery OF Holly
wood. at Richmond. Monroe's death,
like those OF John Adams and Jeffer-
son, 5eli upon theFourth ofJuly. He,
too. in 1881, five years after his great
predecessors and elders, marked the
nations birthday by MS close. He
died III New York a poor man, and
his remains were entombed there
until in 1858 the Legislature OF Nir-
gina removed them to Hollywood
and placed them in q substantial
vault, marked by a Gothic temple on
a foundation OF Virginia granite. Ty-
ler's grave, nearby, is scarcely marked
at all; a little mound with a 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
side him. 4 massive monument OF
Tennessee granite marks the place.
Polk is buried in Nashville at the old
family homestead. He survived jack
o only four years, dying in 1870.
The grave is handsomely inclosed.
and a block twelve feet square by
twelve feet in height bears the inscrip-
ton. Andrew Jackson's grave is at
Greenville,o on a spot selected by himself.
His three sons have erected q hand
some monument OF marble on a base
OF granite. 1t bears numerous patri-
Otto einblems, a flag, an eagle. Il scroll
OF the Constitution, etc. while the in
scription declares: His faith in the
people never waVerea."
Martin Van Buren, lies in the village
cemetry NJ Undertook, \. y, in a
family lot, his resting place marked by
a modest granite shaft. He died IN
" : tho ~1-t.,,,,a. nf 7 Stp ,.l-, 49, ..-si
war was at its height. His successor,
Harrison, was buried at his old home
at North Bend, on the Ohio, "a few
miles Below Cincinnati. An unfencea
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 ut Frankfort.
Ky, after several removals. Miiard
fllimore's grave is at Forest Lawn
Cemetery, three miles from BSffalo,
and that OF Pierce in the old cemetery
AT Concord, n. II. Buchanan is bur
led nj 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 at Spring
field, Ill. Il was dedicated in 1874
and cost S25O.0OO.
Garfield is buried III Lake View Gem,
stery, at Cleveland, where a GROUND
mausoIeum has been erected in his
honor.
OF the eighteen dead Presidents, two
only lie in the same place. Two wert
buried III Massachusetts,. two in New
York, FIVE IN Virginia, three in Tennes
see, two III Ohio, ana one each in New
! Hampshire. Pennsylvania. Kentucky
and Illinois. Eight lie III privat,
grounds. or family burial places, as il
the case Of the Adamses at Quincy.