Show hickory TREE HIS MONUMENT it marks the grave of an ardent ad marer of andrew jackson in the baptist graveyard at canton alea the body 0 an old revolutionary soldier named james sayres A rude unlettered sandstone marks his grave but a more conspicuous monument Is a large hickory tree the trunk of which three feet from the ground measures 51 inches in circum ter ence james sayres was an ardent admer er of andrew jackson so often called old hickory from the character of being so unbending in any caus which he believed to be right mr sayres always wore a sprig ot hickory on his breast on training days and before he died directed that a hickory tree bo planted on his grave this was done and after the tree attained proportions deemed un suitable to adorn a grave it was dug up another tree sprang from the roots left in and this in time waa also dug up when a third tree appeared with a persistency in a good cause worthy of emulation relatives ot the deceased directed that it be not disturbed hence the tree of large proportions that annually showers its nuts over the grave of the admirer of old hick ory philadelphia record |