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Show An Knallnhimin of Intelligence prob- j ably could tell offhand whcro th I bodlcn of moM (if the lunK line of aovcrelun of the "tlaht llllln laic" 1 are hurled. 11 Ir Knfn to my that one I would need more thn the lantern of DIoKcnc to tlnil an AmiTlrin who 1 could name the hitrlal plnce of over J half a doten nf Ilie twenty three Pre- I litenta of the United Stale who hare died. t la a fiwt worth mopping to i think alMiut that the body of not one of the chief executive of the United State Ilea within I ho llmlta of Waih-liiKton, Waih-liiKton, the capital of the country. Thla nation ha no Westminster abbey. ab-bey. When ileal h liaa removed the ! chief rieciitlvea of the United Hlatea. thev have been burled In nearly all rv i I , iff ... m. n m 1 cJ y Franklin Plerc. (-uncord. N. II. case at tlei homes which they had left when tl.ey annum. I oltvo. Probnhly the tomb of no President, or of any American. Ih bolter known to the people of (lie Culled Htllto thnn that of Wiodilniitiui. It Ik a simple, vlneclail mull of brick on bin cutntn at Mount Vernon, the coffin" of the nmt ('resilient and hi wife within bolnir protected from vntiduls by iniiiHl rot ;it . mi Iron burred itatea In the entrance. I'lnln oIuIIkhs of the old faahloued type Hunk the shaded brick walk leading to the entrance. Washington died on Dec. H. 17U9. A plain ohellHk mark the rcstlna: place of the dust nf Jefferaon. It atanda at Montlrello, bla eatato near dmrlnttcsvllle, V., and waa Inacrlbed with thla epitaph from bla own pen: "Here waa burled Thoinn Jfferan. -.U" autkm .ut HnlaflUi ol-tw r" ' "' Ui'penilence, of the tHtiito of VtrKlnta for rellKloua freedom and father of tho Dnlveralty of VlrKlnla," but relic hunter have cblpped much of It away. The body of the President who enunciated the fiimnua diplomatic principle for the Kulilnnco of the weatern heinlHiher which tbu United Htntc la undcrtnklnK to enforce, Jamea Munroe. Ilea In Hollywood cemetery, Richmond, boneiith a canopy. cano-py. He alio died on the annlvemnry of the hIkuIiik of tl Declaration, the fifty llfth. and waa hurled In New York. In lx:i8 hla body waa removed to Richmond with public ceremony A domed canopy aupported by (1 roc Inn pillar and erected on a rals-'d platform of atone, thu whole siiKKiitlim the eat of imin nrnik. ahelliM I'l" obi f("hlo!!ei toniliau.no ovef XtA oonc of Aniirew Jnci-.Mir. It ta on President Jackson' estate, pear Naahvllle, Tenn., the I Kn I'tuno. lb iMed on June S. Trx body of Martin V:in npren, the aurrurwir of I'reMliletit Jackson, who died on July 21, IHf.2. He In the old Dutch cemetery at KHulerhook, N. Y., the town In which tin wna born lly stretching the liiiaHlnatlon ono A I 1 1 ! a Andrew Jackson. ' . , Could find a rescnti.-'aiice between the s log cabin which IlKured s prominent- " ' ly n the campalKil of 'Tippecanoe and Tyler too" and the vault In which lie tho dimt of William Henry Harri son, on the bunk of the Ohio river, at North lieiid. Ohio. The vault la , '; laid In ri'isulur couraea with a tint cover. I'realdent llurrlaou died, after being In olilce only ono mouth, on April 4, 1HI1. Inivlim tho rein of i Koveniuient to the Vice Urenldcnt. , John Tyler. A airuare pavilion of aliiiple ileilun j on the ground of the Cnpllnl of ) Tennesnee, lit Nusbvllle, liverlmiklns j the cltv. nl.i lt. iH the cinve-i of Jame j Knox t'ulk niul Surah t'lilldresa, hla 1 wife, lie died on June K.. ISi:i, ami vat Brt burled In the yard of Ins home A few j ' urn uko bin body win i I i I taken up and placed In lt pretent reatlnic place. Ilia widow lived until mm. Zachary Taylor' (crann xrown (trave at HiirlnKfleld, Ky , five mlbn from Umlavllle, I marked by a abaft, aur mounted by a portrait Htalue, erected by the Slate of Kentucky He died In the White Home on July 9. I.ir.o. Kor a time hla body remained In a vnult In Washington. Two I'realdent have died nt liuf fain The firs! of thcao ai Millard Fillmore, who died llieni on March 8. IHT4. and hla body llin beneath a polished Krniiltn obelisk of the modern mod-ern type In Korest Ijiwn Cemetery. Tho memorial placid over the arave of Kranl.lln I'lercn In the cemetery nt Concord. N. II , la like that of ninny a New Knuland church aplre. Ilesbln hla body Ilea that of hi wife. I'resblent I'lercn died Oct. . Ik!t. The only luu hi lor who ocrnpli'd the I'reslilenlliil rlalr. Jn a llurhalian. dlid at Wheatland farm, near Lancaster. Lancas-ter. I'a .on June I, Isi.H. and Is burled at l-anmstcr beneath a im.asy atone on a able bill overbKiklnit the country coun-try Hide. The flrit I'realdent to receive a uiiinuiiieiit of natliinut cliauu-ler was l.liicoln. This stands In the link llblite cemetery at Sprlnrli. Id. III., mi l nm.hii of a pliilfnrni of cranlie. from which rises nil obell-k. Arniliul the base i f the obelisk ill ench corner are Kroilpa of bnine Ihtiires tyiilfv-I tyiilfv-I IK the trenl atruitule of the Civil War. and nlsive tln-e in front Is n hi nl no of Lincoln. The whole Is In the nelKbborhood of one hundred feet In helitht. (ieiiirnl (Irnnfa close of life at Mount Medr. cor Is well roiiu nibered, and the muiHobum on Ulverside drive, New York, net line probably more than any other In thla roimtry, and numbered iitiiotiK the llnest In tho world, has been visited by many persons. per-sons. He died July L'-'l. las'i. The body of Mrs. (Irnnt was placed beside Unit of her husband In l!io2. The mausoleum In the Ijike View ceiiu-tiTy, near Clevelund. contn!uliiK I lie Isidles of Ceil. Jamea A. tlarlleld, who was shot by llulteaii lu Washing, ton on July 2, 11. and who died on Sept. d of that yrnr. la also a national . .'laik.- ' ' -. til V i '"') ?9 h , ' V ' eWkottK "J 1 - bibsHiiMip f ' iW Jamea K. Polk. Naahvllle. Tilin. monument visited by many pomona from all purls of the country. Tho body of I'realdent McKlnley, who died at Buffalo on Sept. 14, l'Jul, tTniu tho bullet of Ciolnoa. Ilea In Iho receiving, vault at Canton, Ohio, awaltltiK tho cumple"r,h o tho na-tlon'i na-tlon'i ttiotininent, the plana for which are now under consideration. |