The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-07

moved IfOm the Ola vault Wnefe tney
had hitherto lain to a roomy. brick
vault. simple and substantial. His body
and that of his wife are inclosed in cof-
fins of Pennsylvania marble, one bearing
the American shield, the other the words
Martha Washington" These are placed
III the vestibule of the vault proper.
which is closed from the public with
an iron gate.
John Adams and his son. John Quincy
Adams, sleep side by side beneath the
Unitarian church at Quincy. Mass, their
apartment in the front of the cellar,
walled in with large blocks of rough
ly-faced granite. and having for a door
q granite slab. 7x3 feet. with massive
hinges and lock of wrought iron. In
the church above. on either side of the
pulpit, art tablets of clouded marble,
each surmounted by bust and inscrb-
ed with the familiar epitaphs of the only
son and father who ever held the high
est Office in the gift of the American
people.
jefferson and his wife and his daughter
We're buried in a thick growth of woods
a few hundred yards to the right of the
road leading from Charlottesville, Va,
to Monticello In a small private GEM
etery about 100 feet square. 1t was time
that it's care should be undertaken by
the public, for when the New York
Worlds correspondent, some 20 years ago
visited the spot, he found the Enclosure
matted with weeds, the walls preached
the groves trodden level with the ground
and the Caesar granite obelisk over JEFF
ferson's grave Clipped and battered by
relic hunters until only two lines of the
inscription It's decipherable.
Madison reposes in such scenes and
amid such surroundings as the mention
of his name would lead one to look for
Montpelier, near Orange, Va, in the GEN.
ter of a softly picturesque region, is a
fair and trim estate, and the cemetery
lot in the center of field we'll kept.
From a pedestal of four pieces rises a
graceful and slender obelisk, inscribed
with Madison's name and birth date,
while by it's side rests a less lofty shaft
marking the resting place Of the fair
est of all the republican queens, Dolly
Madison.
Monroes body rests in Hollywood GEM
etery Virginia, on an eminence near
the extreme southwest limit, command
ing a beautiful view of Richmond and
the James. 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. The whole is surrounded by a
sort of gothic temple-four pillars sup
porting a peaked roof to which some-
thing of the appearance of bird cage
is impaired by filling in the interstices
with iron grating.
jackson and his beloved wife Rachel
are buried in the corner of the garden
of the Hermitage. eleven miles from
Nashville, on the Lebanon pike. The
tomb is a circular area of Tennessee S
limestone, eighteen feet in diameter, APP
preached by three steps. Eight tluted
columns support an entablature and
dome, surmOunted by an arm. In the
center of this area is square support
ing pyramid. Jackson lies on the left
, under a plain stone slab, his wife on the
right. Magnolia trees encircle the
, grove, on which a small clump of hisk-
cries cost their shade.
Van Buren's body is in the center of
the Van Buren, lot. in the northeast cor
ner of the cemetery at Rinderherk.
, Above it is a plain granite shaft fifteen
! feet high, bearing simple Inscription,
! the two other faces are in memory of his
wife and son, Martin. The lot is un-
| fenced embroidered, unmarked by shrub
! or flower
Harrison's body in 1879 lay in plain
brick vault on the summit of hiilock
at North Bend, O., fifteen miles from
Cincinnati. A thick underground then
| covered the hillock, and the tomb was
not marked by single letter. 1t was
understood that the body was 10 be re-
moved to Spring Grove cemetery, at Gin
cinnati.
Tyler's grave is a turfed mound in
Hollywood cemetery, at Richmond. ten
yards from that of Monroe. No stone
| marks it, though the state is ultimately
| to erect a monument above the spot A
single magnolia stands sentinel over 1t,
and it is surrounded with flowers.
Folks burial place is in the garden OF
| the mansion he finished on the eve OF
| his death. The site is the corner of Vine
| and Union streets. in the city of Nash
vile. In the center Of this garden, not
| far from the gate, in the center of a
| sweet, smooth grass plot, is the tomb
Around this grass plot runs shell path