The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-10-27
THE PRESIDENTS GRAVES
Where the Remains of Our Rulers are
Laid to Rest.
Four are Buried i'm New York State
and One in Albany's Beautiful
Cemetery-Five in Virginia.

There have been twenty-one ex-presi-|
dents of the United States, only one of
whom-Rutherford B. Hayes-sti.l sur
wives, says the New cork Commercial Ad-
vertiser. The mortality in ex-presidents
has been unusually great of late years.
Seldom, indeed, has it happened that
fewer than three or four ex presidents
have been alive at one time.
George Washingtou's grave needs no
description. His homestead at Mount
Vernon, Virginia, where he lived, died and
was buried, by the side of the beautiful
Potomac, is one of the nations shrines,
and is visited annually by many thous-
ands.
John Adams, the second president, is
buried in vault beneath the Unitarian
church st Quincy, Mass, where lie also
the remains of his sou, the sixth presi-
dent, John Quincy Adams. The coffins
are of lead, placed in csses hewn from
solid blocks of granite. In the main
body of the church are beautiful and
elaborate marble memorial tablets to the
two ex-presidents.
Jefferson, the third president, was
buried, according to his desire, in
LONELY LITTLE CEMETERY,
the right of the road leading from Char.
lottesville, Virginia, to Monticello, the
statesman's residence. The scenery in
the vicinity is of rarely beautiful de.
scription. The tombstone, granite
obelisk, niue feet high, has been greatly
defaced by relic hunters.
Madison, the fourth president, rests in
beautiful spot on the old Madison es-
tate, near his home in Montpelier, near
Orange, Hancock county, Virginia. The
estate Is an extensive one, and the man
sion Is surrounded by beautiful grounds,
conspicuous in which is the tall, graceful
shaft in the obelisk over Madi-
sons grave. It is in the center
of large, level field, in lot
about hundred feet square, sur
rounded by substantial brick wall, five
feet high.
One of the worthiest places OF sepul-
ture accorded to any of our leading
statesmen is that in which repose the re-
mains of James Monroe, the fifth presi-
dent. His grave is in the southwestern
corner of beautiful Hollywood cemetery,
ut Richmond, Virginia, and on a high
knoll, from which fine view may be had
OF nearly the whole city, together with
Manchester ana other environs and the
picturesque valley of the James for
many miles. Above the body is a huge
block of polished Virginia marble, sup
porting a coffin shaped block of gra mite,
on which are brass plates suitably in
scribed, surrounded by gothic temple.
AS is we'll known, not only Monroe but
also John Adams and Jefferson expired,
by an impressive coincidence on the
fourth of July.
The grave of Andrew Jackson, the
seventh president, la situated in a corner
of the garden of the Hermitage, Jack
sons residence in life, about eleven
miles from Nashville, on the Lebanon
pike. The remains lie under a massive
monument of Tennessee limestone, sup
ported by eigh. Dorio columns support
ing dome with an urn above it. In the
center of the limestone platform is a
pyramid resting on a square, and the
whole edifce is surrounded by magnolias.
The tomb Is tolerably well preserved, in
spite of relic hunters.
VAN BURES's GRAVE.
Martin Van Buren,, the eighth presi-
dent, lies in the village cemetery at Kin
derhook, Columbia county, New York,
his old home. The grave is in the centre
OF the Van Buren, family lot, in the
northeastern corner of the cemetery, and
is cared for no better than the majority
of graves in country burying grounds.
Above the grave Is plain grauite shaft
fifteen feet high. Van Buren's residence
and estate Bipdenwald, two miles south
OF the village of Kinderhook, is still in
good condition, and is the property of
well-to- do farmers.
The nominations of Benjamin Harri-
son by the Republicans, this wear, has
aroused a fresh interest in reference to
his grandfather, William Henry Harri-
son, the ninth president whose grave, for
ma.y ears woefuliy neglected, was in a
plain brick vault on he summit of a hill
lock at North Bend, Ohio, Harrison's
home, about l5 miles west of Cincinnati,
on the bauk uf no Ohio river. The vault
Was su' III united by fiat stone. without
lnrcripDun, and the structure was suffer
ed to be overgrown by weeds; but of late
II has been cared for, and the Ohio legis-
lature has made an appropriation for the
erection of u suitable monument
The tenth president, Tyler, lies also in
Hollywood cemetery, within a few feet of
Monroe, and, strangely enough, his grave
has been, until recently, as much
NEGLECTED LII THE STATE
as Monroe's has been honored. Lately,
however, measures have been taken to do
proper honor to his remains.
Polk, the eleventh president, who died
only three months after retiring from
the presidency, WAS brried within the
grounds around his stately residences Mt
Nashville. The monumen', OF limestone,
is almost twelve feet squire and rs many
high, in the Doric style, and ia ornament
ed with ivy. The burial place and all its
surroundings are fully worthy of the
man and of the high office to which they
are tribute.
The remains of Taylor, the twelfth
president, have been inferred four times,
once at Washington, second time at the
Taylor homestead near Louisville, X en-
tucko, third time in Cave Hill cemetery
Louisville, and finally at Frankfort, Ken
tucky, where an appropriate monument
hes been erected over them.
Fillmore, the thirteenth president, re-
poses in the beautiful Forest Lawn GENE.
try, in the city OF his home, Buffalo, New