Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-12-02

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2 and 6. John Adams and John
Quincy Adams.-The bodies of both
these patriots are entombed beneath
the portico of the Unitarian church
at Quincy, Mass. No monument or
exterior sign marks the spot where
rest father and son, both great fight
ers for our national independence.
3. Thomas Jefferson.-He served
his country for forty-four years, dy-
ing comparatively poor man, and
was buried in the private burying
ground near the road leading to Mon
ticello from Charlottesville, Va. A
little stone marked the spot for 81
years. AS 1t was fast going to decay,
Congress finally erected monu-
ment inscribed:
Here was Buried
THOMAS JEFFERSON,
Author of the Declaration of
Independence"
1t is a granite shaft eighteen feet
high.
4. James Madison.-Like Jeffer-
son, Madison was buried on his own
farm, this being near Monticello, Va.
For twenty-five years the spot was
unmarked, until finally public Spirit
started a subscription and erected q
shaft marked Madison" 1t stands
twenty-four feet high. 1t is not even
to-day positively determined whether
the monument stands at the spot
where the body was buried, as there
never had been any marking of the
grave.
5. James Monroe,-Encyclopa
las and histories, as q rule, when
they mention the subject have Presi-
dent Monroe buried in the old MAR
BILE Cemetery" on Second street, New
York city. In reality his body rests
in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond,
Va. The grave is surrounded by o
steel grating, which was erected to
protect the sarcophagus, after van
dals had twice stolen the copper
name-plate. For twenty-seven years
Monroe's body did rest in the New
York cemetery, in vault No. lat, be-
longing to Robert Tlllotson. In
1858, at the expense Of the State of
Virginia, the body was removed.
Z. Andrew Jackson rests in
corner of his garden at the Hermit
age, eleven miles from Nashville,
Tenn. A beautiful monument, fif-
teen feet high, marks the spot, and
is inscribed General Andrew Jack
son." giving dates of birth and death.
8. Martin Van Buren.-In a little
cemetery at Kinderhook, N. Y, rises
Van Buren's unpretentious shaft.
8. William Henry HARRISON
Tippacanoe' Harrison was great
general and fighter in the battles of
his country, yet for fifty-six years his
body rested in dilapidated tomb at
North Bend, Ohio, in the midst of a
pasture field. The ground was deed
ed to the State of Ohio, and the tomb
repaired to its present condition in
1897, when the name Harrison"
was cut on the tomb for the first
time.
10. John Tyler.-A little stone
about twenty by thirty inches marks
President Tyler's resting place in
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
His grave is less than ten yards from
President Monroe's, and for thirty
seven years was unmarked.
IL. James X. Polk.-At Nashville,
Tenn, President Polk's remains rest
ed in his own door yard for forty
four years. They were then removed
to the Capitol grounds at the ex-
pense of the State, and now renose
under a befitting monument.
IL. Zachary Taylor.--At st. Mat
thews, KY, in a large field of his
old farm, stands a beautiful monu-
ment, thirty-seven feet high, bearing
the name Maj. Gen. Zachary Taylor,
Twelfth President Of the United
States" profile Of the General, and
list of the battles he fought. 1t
was erected by the State.
13. Millard Fillmore.-A plain OBJ
elisk, twenty-five feet high stands in
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.
Y, to the memory Of MilIard Fill
more.
Ia. Franklin Pierce.-A fourteen
foot monument OF Canadian marble,
at Concord, N. H., Is inscribed,
Franklin Pierce" and bears the
line: "Other refuge have none"
Is. James Buchanan.-At Lancas-
ter, Pa, stands the monument mark
ing the grave OF Abrham Lincoln s
predecessor as Chief Magistrate.
16. Abrham Lincoln.-His tomb
and monument at Springfield, ILL.,,
cost $270,000, which sum was raised
by public subscription. In 1900 it
was discovered that the foundation
was defective, and the State appro-
structure. It now stands 1876 feet
high. The inscription is:
"LINCOLN,
With Malice Towards None, With
Charity for All ;"
l8. Ulysses S. Grant.-He Is hon
ored with one OF the grandest mauso-
leums in the world. 1t cost $780,
600, stands 800 feet above the level
OF the Hudson, on Riverside Drive,
New York, and was the gift Of the
people OF the country. 1t is marked,
Let Us Have Peace !" Inside are
two sarcophagi, each Weighing ten
tons, one marked ULYSSES s. Grant"
the other Julia d. Grant"
10. Rutherford b. Hayes sleeps
beneath modest monument in the
family plot at Fremont. Ohio.