Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-09

Iombs of Some of Our
Presidents.
interesting sketches of the Tombs of the Proai
dents:
THE TOMB OF MADISON.
Montpelier, Virginia.
At Montpelier, the name which Mr.. Madison
gave to his beautiful residence, in Orange county,
Virginia, about one hundred miles northwest of
Richmond and thirty miles from the grave of
Jefferson, are inferred the remains of the fourth
President of the United States, and father of the
Constitution. We have no recollection of any
published account of Mr.. Madsons tomb, although
his late residence has been frequently described.
The memory of Mr.. Madison has been some
what neglected in his native state Short sketches
of his life have been written by John Quincy
Adams Charles ]. Ingersol, and other modern
men; and there is brief notice of him appended
to his political writings; but a full personal bio
graphy of this great man is much wanting After
his death in June, 1886, funeral Grafton was
delivered before the citizens of Richmond Vir-
ginia, by VIM. H. Mcfarland Esq, of that city,
in which he gave eloquent sketch of his pub
lie life and services but no account of his private
life. Mr.. Adams was appointed by the city au-
thorities of Boston to deliver eulogy on Mr..
Madison. The faculty of the University of Vir-
ginia, paid due honors to his memory. In Con-
gress his death appropriately noticed by
resolutions and speeches, made by Mr.. Patton,
of Virginia, and John Quincy Adams.
We believe that the remains Of Mrs. Madison,
the venerable reict Of Mr. Madison, who survived
her husband until her death recently, were also
inferred at Montpelier.
MONROE.
At the Second street Cemetery, Neto York.
Mr.. Monroe was a native of the county of West
moreland, Virginia, and his family residence was
at Oak HILL London county, near the Potomac
river. We believe that Mrs. Monroe, who died
a short time before the President, buried
there, as we'll as other members of the family.
Mr. Monroe left only two children, both daugh-
tiers; the widow of George Hay, ESQ.,, of
Richmond the other the wife of Samuel L. Gou-
verneur, Esq, of New York. The President died
in this city at the residence of his son-in-law,
Mr. Gouverneur, the 4th of July, 1881 He was
inferred with military and civic honors on Thurs
day, 18th July. The funeral procession moved
from the City Hall at p. M, where the body
brought by guard of honor, accompanied by
the immediate relatives and friends of the fam
ily An address delivered in front of the
hall by William A. Duer, president of Columbia
College. The body was then taken to st. Pauls
Church. where the funeral service of the Episcopal
Church was read and an anthem sung In the
meantime the several societies formed in the
park The pail bearers Samuel L. Southland,
Col Richard Varick, Col. John Trumbull John
Watts John Ferguson, David Brooks, Governor
Aaron Ogden, and Thomas Morris-United States
Marshal. The procession moved up Broadway
to Blocker street, the military forming line on
each side of Blocker and Second streets, while
the different bodies and societies marched through
posted in the vault assigned to it, at the north
east end of the cemetery in Second street.
JAMES MONROE,
of Virginia,
DIED 9TH JULY, 1881.
Aged IA years.