Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-25
THE PRESIDENTS GRAVES.
Where the Remains of Our Rulers are
Laid to Rest.
Four are Buried in New York State
and One in Albany's Beautiful
Cemetery-Five in Virginia.


fewer than three or four eI-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 1T Quincy, Mass, where lie also
the remains Of his son, the sixth presi-
dent, John Quincy Adams. The collins
are of lead, placed in cases 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,
amid wooded thicket, some distance to
the right of the road leading from Char.
lottesville, Virginia, to Monticello, the
statesman's residence. The scenery in
the vicinity is of a rarely beautiful de-
scription. The tombstone, a granite
obelisk, nine 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,
cons picuous in which is the tall, graceful
shaft in the obelisk over Madi-
sons grave. It is in the center
of a large, level field, in a lot
about a 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,
at Richmond, Virginia, and on 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 huge
block of polished Virginia marble, sup
porting a coffin shaped block of granite,
on which are brass plates suitably in
scribed, surrounded by gothic temple.
AS is well 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, is situated in 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 massive
monument of Tennessee limestone, sup
ported by eight Doric columns support
ing a 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 we'll preserved, in
spite of relic hunters.
VAN BUREN'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, 10 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 granite shaft
fifteen feet high. Van Buren's residence
and estate Bindenwald, two miles south
of the village of Undertook, is still in
good condition, and is the property of
well-to- do farmers.
The nominations of BENZ amin Harri-
SOD by TIE Republicans, this year, has
aroused fresh interest in reference to
his gro ndfather, William Henry Harri-
son, the ninth president whose grave, for
may ,ears woefully neglected, was in a
plain brick vault on the summit of hill
lock at North Bend, Ohio, Harrison's
home, about Is miles west Of Cincinns ii,
on the bank Of the Ohio river. The vault
was surmounted by a fat stone. without
inscription, and the structure was suffer
ed to be overgrown by weeds; but of late
it has been cared for, and the Ohio legis-
lature has made an appropriation for the
erection of suitable monument.
The tenth president, Tyler, lies also III
Hollywood cemetery, within few feet Of
Monroe, and, strangely enough, his grave
has been, until recently, as much
NEGLECTED. LIZ 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 buried within the
grounds around his stately residence at
Nashville. The monument, of limestone,
is almost twelve feet square and as many
high, in the Doric style, and is ornament
ed with ivy. The burial place and al 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 al Washington, second time at the
Taylor homestead near Louisville, Ken
tucko, third time IN Cave Hill cemetery
Louisville, and finally at Frankfort, Ken
tucky, where an appropriate monument
has been erected over them.
Fillmore, the thirteenth president, re-
poses in the beautiful Forest Lawn GENE
try, in the city CT his home, Buffalo, New
York. His grave is the center Of the
cemetery, on the crest of hill, and il is
sUrmounted By q lofty shaft of Scotch
granite. The environment is peaceful
and loseiy.
Pierce, the fourteenth president, sleeps
in the Minot cemetery, at Concord, New
Ham pshire. His grave is marked by q
monument of Italian marble, deliberately
wrought, and surmounted by draped
Oiooo' WIG eo'oi hF'Bh DoiAS ooooS ~ -
feet.
In Wood ward Hill cemetery, Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, on bluff overlooking the
Conestoga valley, stands the tomb Of
James Buchanan, the fifteenth president
"a vault of heavy masonry supporting a
monument in the Roman style, q single
block of Italian marble six feet long by
three feet wide and high, wrought with
heavily moulded cap and base.
LINCoLN's MAUsoLEUM.
| Lincoln, the sixteenth president, and
| the first OF our magistrates to meet a