The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1912-09-06
TOMBS OF The
''''' P PRESIDENTS
Zachary Taylor Buried
Near Louisville.
Where Others Who Have Been
at Head Of Nation Find
Resting Place.

ttrnan Nolds an interesting a'tlc y
frmn Mhe Kansns City star Of Ovs,obor
IsS2. conocrlj ng the tombe of the Pass
idcnts of the unltcd States. To be Sure,
- btean ooud hardly eyer have bsnn
Gals d n i've it'm-raihor h wohd be
dad itom--bua as 1T deals with i'm
mortal nu.nDcs it, unay'ng interest ~
assured. TIE nridclc nads:
The Pr s1Bionts of dhc Una,cd S.atcs
who are dead are mary all bmf II
In tho neighborhocd Of the hcpnes
wlarh they oo,uyted. W,shfngf on :
tomb. at Mt. vernon, Is known 10 AL
the word. John Adams and jain
QJucy Adams lie ben Elth Tive Uni
tartan church 81, Quincy, Mass. THE
coffhrs are of Lad, paced IN Nrsw
hewn from Sold blocks pf grante.
Thor wives are buried With t3cm.
John Adams did on the same day
with jefferson, n s,range cntnc$.nnce
itsem, but. stranger slb., Was IN
the Fourth Of July, 49,, just hu&f
I-rpdmce which they had Joined in
making. DIVIDED bitterly ,n Their
livc~. but retxrcilcd in some figure as
their years ,lTcw TO a close, thy quit
tod their siege OF action side by ALE.
Jefferson, Ike rs ccmIafuTf, WIS
buried in has fanny ground-by his
home at Monticello. He had nlt 'iown
on the fly-'saf Of IN nd nooount book
lbs wdshfs concerning lit. "Choosa,'
his memorandum saia. ''scrne unfre-
qtlcn;.d vale In the y..rk wllere Is NJ
snuad TO break the sdian,s.s but
brook that bubb Ding Winds among the
wcods. Lot II be among ancient and
venerable oaks in,erss~rse s,ne gloomy
evsrgT'eons Aygrppfate one-ha.f To the
use OF my family, the o.her TO s,r-a,g-
crs, servants, &c. l<s the eut Sook
upon smaG and distant rart Of the
Rue MolirsIns." These directions wre
substantially carried out. little in-
closure, containing Hcne thdrty graves,
sstaslds among the woods I'M the road
tisa leads from Olarkfts,Hr 10 Mon
tioio, and a graitte ot,elisk much Chip
pod by rebc-takGng vslicrs, marks the
grave of the ex-President.
In the same Jart q Virginia. IN n
Mnts.elier, lies the successor of Jaffer-
son, Madison, the Fourth Trno tdlcnt.
Beside him is buried Ids wife, VINO
died DIN 1sa9 surviving HIN almost
thsrfy years, and two ncphcws. Two
other Virginia Presidents, Monroe and
@, lie within a few feet of zach
other in the fine cemstcry of Holly
wood, at Richmond. Strangely enough.
Monr"es death. like those of John
Adams and jefferson, fell uJ,on the
FDuHth of July. He, too, in lSsi, five
y1ars after his great elders-Enarke I'd
tho na7on's hiruhday by his Hose. lie
dad in New York, poor man. and
lbs remains werc entombed there. I'M
ILL tn 1888, tine Lesis ature Of Nir1iaia
moved them 10 Hollywood and paced
them In substantial vault. marked
by Gothic temple on a foundation of
\ilnsina granite. Tyrr's grave, mar
by. Is saroey marked az all a liute
mound ytdh magma Ia free at the
head, is pointed out as the spot
hIlhe three Tennesse Presidents want
back 10 the places whore they had
dwet, for their long rest. JACKSON is
burhsd at his home, the HNrittas;c,
nalr Nalhv1e, his wife hasSie him.
A massive mpnument of rnness
granite marks the place. Pax Is bur-
lid in Nashville, at the Old fnn,v
Homestead. lie survived jackson only
four years, dying in 1873. The grave
n handsomely inckssd, and hlock.
twelve feet square by two we IN hdgh;,
bears the Inscriptions. Amdred John
sons grave lis at Green,Ils, On "a spot
have, ereatcd handsome monument OF
manb'e upon a base of granite. IT
bears numerous paariatac erpblams-a
flag an eagle, the scroll Of the Con-
statutaon, eic,-Mise the INSCRIPTION
declares: His faith In fanc people
newer wavered." MarNn Van Buren
Mes In the virngc cemetery at Kthtirr-
hook, N. ". In family lot, his revtting
place marked by madest ginnhc
shaft. He did in the summer of 1867.
when the Cihs war was ukung 10 its
htlEht. Ills successor. Harrison. WIS
burned at his old home mt North
Bend, ON the Ohio siwr. a fow pslss
below Cincinnati. An nnfemoad mound.
ovar a family waust, f~matN nfEis,t-
cd. but reoently more carefuy kept,
marks iahe eIsot.
The dust Of Zachary Taylor Is now
busted near Louisville, Ky, inter sev-
srai rsmava,s MiArd FNsnpmA Hr.ye
t1ara