Show HICKORY TREE IS A MONUMENT NT it marks the grave of an admirer of president jacks jackson on in the baptist graveyard at canton tore pa near salem lies the body ot of an old revolutionary soldier named lames jimes sayres bayres A rude unlettered BAndi marks his big grave but a more conspicuous monument Is a large hickory alee the trunk of which three feet from the ground measures measures 51 inches in circumference james sayres was an ardent admirer of andrew jackson so often called old hickory from the he char alcher of being so unbending in any cause which he believed to be right mr sayres always wore a sprig of 0 hickory on an his bis breast on 01 training flays days and before he died directed that a hickory tree be planted on OB his big grave this was done ind anil atler after the tree attained proportions deemed unsuitable to lo adorn a grave it was dug up lip another fr tree tre e sprang from the roots left in and this in time was also dug up when a third tree appeared with a persistency in a good cause worthy of 0 emulation relatives ot of the deceased directed that hat it be not disturbed hence the tree ot of large ms that annually showers its nuts over the grave of the deceased admirer ot of old Ilic hickory kory |