Show OUE OUR EARLY presidents how ilow they lived LI red and left their des ile a cendan ts poor brooklyn eagle jefferson lived at monticello in the meridian of hia his intellectual manhood the patron of seats of learning the friend of iho the grett great gre tt of the earth as a citizen of virginia and his mountain home was as accessible ces sible as the laborers cottage his predecessors in the great office he fi filled 11 ed dwelt like him in in modest 0 dest homes adams in a new eng england laud village and washington at mount vernon where his munificent hospitality p pita lity made hia his virginia ginia home seem a great mansion mansion whereas it was not more pretentious save as to grounds than are the homes of mechanics toay to jay matisons Madi A adi sons home was the finest of all the presidents and una he died so poor that his widow to get the means to pay her b e r board in washington sold her public papers to congress he ile had bad no children and yet did not leave wealth enough t to 0 keep his homestead in the possession of his family ten years after alter hi his death Mon monroe the author of the doctrine that is today to day the guide and monitor ef of the nation in its dealings with other nations lived for his country and died homeless long before his death he sold his country homo home in virginia gin ia and became an inmate of his daughters house in new york where he died jackson like washington tn jefferson madison and monroe own owned ed a farm and although he lie left no children the state of tennessee bought the hermitage to save it from the auctioneers hammer and shelters there today to day tho the last descendant ant of his wife who if she were not riot so protected would be dependent on public charity in this city at the present time is septimia tho the seventh and youngest TOUng CSt grandchild of thomas jefferson JefTer soll an aged lady who through congressman greci man robinson Rb inson appealed and appealed in vain to the last congress 9 ress for a pension to keep her from suf suffering fiering for the comforts of life the descendants of the men who pioneered Sione cred the country through its ark dark days of war and aided it with theia mental energies and patriotism arc are for the most part like mrs Meik lehan poor and they arc are like her aliens to the historic homes of their forefather while many of them are wanderers on the face of the earth there is i s scarcely a historic family in this country living on its ancestral acres and perpetuating the hospitable fame of its ita distinguished ancestry mount vernon is owned by the wo men orthis of this country and the people of virginia who have in their veins the blood of washington are for the most part very poor montpelier bus has been sold several times within the past twenty five years and now how is owned by a richmond merchant who will live there in summer the hermitage as haa been said belongs to the state of often tennessee and the fate of monticello a all 11 tho the world knows the presidents denis succeed succeeding ilg jackson were ore men of like mind in their appreciation of the greatness of their office and anti the descendants of the majority of them are to today to d day ily richer in blood than they are in in incomes incomes so also are the families of men like clay calhoun benton randolph and webster the example of patriotism set by the founders of the government has been potent and wonderful and it has cecii been honor enough to be a grandson or a daughter a niece niece or a son of a president the descendants of these first of our rulers are not numerous now in ili virginia are a few of tho the washington family of tho the lawrence washington ier ington branch and of the matisons Madi sons there are none monroe has one or two nieces n and a nephew living and jackson has not a living i descendant the adams family is Is the best represented of the six jef 1 ferson has a number of descendants and MM mrs is his nearest living relation she ia is the youngest daughter of his eldest daughter daughter Al Mart artlia lia who married a ran randolph 1 ph I 1 and is the la last laa A of her seven daughters mrs randolph left a lar large e family of children but all are dead save this daughter now a woman of elderly years and slender purse she has been supported for many years by her daughter who w I 1 io was an employee iu in ono one of the departments iu in washington jefferson had no sons and find hh his only other child marie epacs r apes died during his ond term terin mrs randolph was a noble virginia Virgi uia tu matron atron and nod jeffersons last days were made wretched by the thought that he should have to leave her poor the home was sold and tho the fund that was BO so generously proposed to be raised for her was never secured |