Show HICKORY TREE HIS MONUMENT it marks the grave of an ardent admirer of andrew jackson in the baptist aplist IS gravey graveyard aid at canton lies the body of an old revolutionary I 1 soldier named janics sayres A rude unlettered sandstone marks liis his gi giace giave a e but a moie conspicuous monument is I 1 a large hickory tree iree the trunk of which thice feet feer from the round ground measures inches in cuce c uce ilce james sayres was an ail ardent admirer of andrew jackson so often called old IlIc hickory kory hoin aiom the character of being so unbending ja in any cause which lie he believed to be light sir mr sayres always wore were a sprig of hickory on his big breast on training days and before he died directed that a hickory tree lie be planted on his grave r ave this hiis afas lone done and antei the tree attained pio portions deemed un iiii suitable to lo adorn a grave it was dug up another tiec deprang from the roots left in and this in time was also dug up when a thlik tice lice appealed with a persistency in a goof good cause worthy of 0 emulation of the de deceased directed that it be not disturbs d hence tho the tren tree of 0 large proportion that annually showers its nuts over ue jie grave of the admirer nil of old ilick hick on ory philadelphia nevoid |