Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-04-22
Burial Places of Our Presidents


body was borne to its final resting
place in the beautiful cemetery at
Frankfort.
The body of President Willard Fill
more lies buried in Forest Lawn Gene
terry, miles from Buffalo, N. Y, in
beautiful spot
Franklin Pierce died in Concord, N.
H., october 8, 1869, and is buried there
in Minat Enclosure Cemetery.
James Buchanan died at Wheatland,
Pa, June l. 1868, and is inferred in
Woodward Hill Cemetery, at Lancaster.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, who died in this
city on the morning of April Is. 1865,
from a wound inflicted by an assassin
the evening before, is buried in Spring.
field, ILL.,, where a magnificent monu-
ment was dedicated to his memory
October Is. 1874.
On the morning of May 3, 1865, the
funeral train bearing the body of the
martyred President returned to Spring.
field, traversing the same route used on
the way to Washington four years be-
fore. He left Springfield to accomplish
a great work He was brought back to
Springfield when that work was finished,
that his ashes might lie near those of
his loved ones.
Andrew johnson, who finished out
Mr.. Lincolns second term, is inferred in
the Andrew johnson National Cemetery
in Greenville, Green County, Tenn.
Grants Tomb
Grants Tomb erected to the memory
of Gen. U. S. Grant, on Riverside drive.
New York City, is one of the historic
spots of America.
President Rutherford B. Hayes was
originally buried in 'Oakwood Cemetery,
but following the gift of his home to
the State of Ohio, for the Spiegel Grove
State Park. his remains were reinterred
there in 1915
James Abram Garfield, the lamented
President, died at Elberon, N. j.. on
September 10, 1881, as the result of an
attack on his life made in Washington
July 2 of that year by Charles j. Gui-
teau. He was buried in Lake View
Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio, where in
1890 a monument was erected to his
memory by popular subscription. His
successor, Chester Alan Arthur, died in
New York City November Is, 1886, and
was inferred in the Rural Cemetery,
Albany, N. Y.
Stephen Grover Cleveland died in
Princeton, N. j., June "a, 1908, and is
buried in Princeton.
Benjamin Harrison died in Indian
apolis, Ind, March 10, 1901. His re-
mains rest in Crown Hill Cemetery.
William Mckinley
William Mckinley, who died at the
hand of an assassin in Buffalo, N Y,
on September IA, 1901, is buried in the
Mckinley Monument, Canton, Ohio.
From the day he was wounded, on Sep
TENDER 6, to the time of his death, such
an outpour of love and devotion was
never paid to the memory of any man
in all the history of the earth. There
was scarcely dry eye among the scores
of thousands that looked upon the
Nations dead where he lay in funeral
state at Buffalo
One incident of the state funeral at
Washington was perhaps more beauti-
fully illuminative of the ties between
Mckinley and his people than any other
memory of that sad occasion. At the
start of the procession up Pennsylvania
avenue Monday evening one wavering
soprano voice back somewhere in the
wilderness of people sang Nearer My
God to Thee" the notes of which were
on the lips of the President as he de-
scended slowly into the valley of the
shadow of death. The affecting refrain
was caught up by thousands of subdued
voices, which carried it up the thorough
fare, keeping pace with the cortege till
the hymn burst from thousands more
who were banked in upon Lafayette
Square opposite the White House gates,
making the heart swell and tears to
gush from eyes that watched the prog
ress up the circular drive under the
portecochere.
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, who filled out
Mr. McklnleyS uneXplred term and
subsequent term, died in Oyster Bay,
Nassau County, N. T., January 6, 1919.
Interment in Young's Memorial Gene
terry.
William Howard Taft died in this city
at 2215 wyoming avenue March 8,
1880. His remains repose in Arlington
National Cemetery. Woodrow Wilson,
his successor in office, died at 234o S
street, this city, on February 8, 1924.
His remains rest in the crypt at the
Washington Cathedral of SIS. Peter and
Paul
On August 2, 1923, Warren 6. Harding
died suddenly at the Palace Hotel in
San Francisco, Calf His remains were
brought to Washington and later taken
to Marion, Ohio, and placed in an
asphalt sarcophagus and later, when
the mausoleum was completed, the sar-
cophagus was transferred to it.
Calvin Coolidge, the last of the former
Presidents to die, passed away suddenly
at Northampton, Mass, January S, 1888.
The interment, attended by President
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