Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-13
TOMBS OF PRESIDENTS
NOT ALL GRAND ONES

vault covered by a dock or pOlSneQ mar
bic on which rests the sarcophagus. The
inscription on the metal recites the date OF
his BIRTH April rs, 175S, and his death In
New York city, July A. 1881; also the fact
that he was governor of Virginia from
1923 to 1902, and president from 1877 TO
1895. Inclosing the whole, to keep vandals
from marring 1t, is a beautiful Gothic
cage of wrought iron. Mrs. Monroe
body lies unmarked in Loudoun county,
Va.
Grave of "oId Hickory"
Andrew jackson, the seventh president,
lies under a Doric colorado dome at the
Hermitage, his old home on the Cumber-
land river, almost within sight of Nash
Vile, Tenn. The brief inscription says
that General Andrew Jackson was born
March Is, III; died June s, 1885," His wife
lies beside him.
Martin Van Buren,, eighth President of
the United States. born December ., llS2;
died July "a, 1852" Is the short inscription
on the plain monument marking low
mound in the reformed cemetery at Kim
derhook. N. Y. The tall granite slab also
marks the grave of Mrs. Van Buren,.
William Henry Harrison, ninth Presl-
dent, was laid to rest in Congressional
cemetery, April z, 1871. In July, 1874, his
remains were taken to North Bend, o.,
and placed in the family vault. This vault
is on a hill in the middle of big pasture
sloping to the O44io river, and is near the
old Harrison homestead. 1t was, few
years ago, surrounded by an old board
fence, and vault and fence Wed with each
other in tumbledown appearance. No In
scription of any kind is visible. The land
was decided to the state by John Scott
Harrison. father of the late Benjamin
Harrison, with the understanding, 1t Is
said, that the tomb should be kept in re-
pair. The state seems to have forgotten
this trust.
The tenth President, John Tyler, sleeps
beside Monroe in the Presidents plot in
Hollywood cemetery, Richmond. Neither
monument nor stone marks his grave, UNI
less very recently constructed. The state
'igated itself to erect a monument about
80 years ago. Tyler was born March 20
1890. and died January IL, 1862.
James X. Polk, eleventh President, is
buried in the homestead yard in Nash
vile, Tenn, under a limestone monu-
ment of square design In Grecian Dorlc
style. The inscription reeites that he was
born November 2, 1895, and died June To-
1919
Gen. Zachary Taylor, twelfth president,
who died July 49, 1850, was first buried in
Congressional cemetery Washington, ID.
c., but was later taken to Louisville. KY,
where his grave in the Taylor cemetery is
marked by a tall shaft surmounted by
life-sized figure Of himself in full uni
form. He was born November "a, 17S4.
Willard Fillmore, thirteenth President,
is buried in a beautiful spot in Forest
Lawn cemetery, near Buffalo, N. Y,
plain monument of polished red granite
bears the name, Fillmore" and the sim
pie inscription, Willard Fillmore, born
January Z, 1900; died March 9, 1874
Franklin Pierce sleeps in his native state
New Hampshire), in Minot cemetery,
Concord Although the fourteenth Presi-
dent, the modest inscription on the cross
e L, 1e fae,1xr
tells that Frank Pierce was born Novem-
Der % and died October s. 1859.
In the Keystone State.
In Woodward Hill cemetery, Lancaster
Pa, rests the dust of James Buchanan.
The Romanesque monument of Italian
marble bears the inscription, James Blu
chanan, fifteenth president of the United
States. Born in Franklin county, Pa
April %, 17sL Died at Wheatland. June 1,
1868"
Springfield, ILL.,. holds the shrine of Lin
coin The monument lately rebuilt is an
imposing pile. The beautiful, marble sar-
cophagus has upon it the word Lincoln"
and the single sentence, with malice to-
ward none, wiln charity for ALL" It needs
no other inscription. The nation will
doubtless ever remember incidents OF the
day Of his death, April Is. 1865.
Andrew Johnson's grave is in Greenville.
Greene county, Tenn, and a magnificent
monument marks the last resting place
of the seventeenth president of the United
States born December 20, 1908; died July
g. 1875" This monument was erected by
his children.
General Grant, the great soldier presi-
dent. sleeps under an imposing monument
in New York City. The soldiers of the
| country have always felt that the great
est soldier Of them all" should rest I'm Ar
lington. The long struggle with the grim
chieftain, death, ended at Mt. McGregor
N. Y, July %, 1855, and the eighteenth
president Of the United States was mus
| tered out"
The nineteenth president was Ruther-
I ford 3. Hayes, born October 4, 1922; died
at Fremont, o., January IL, 1893 His dust
rests under a beautiful monument at Ere
/ mont.
In Cleveland, o., under a magnificent
monument, Gen. James Abram Garfield
sleeps the sleep that knows no waking.
He was born November IS, 1881, and was
assassinated while president, dying Sep
tember IS, 1881.
Chester Alan Arthur, the twenty-first
president is buried in Rural cemetery, at
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