Buried in the northeastern corner of the Reformed Church cemetery at Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York. In the centre of the Van Buren plot rises a plain granite

Born March 8, 1783.
Died at Albany, N. Y.,
Feb. 5, 1819.

The remains of Mr. Van Buren
and his wife do not lie beneath the
monument described. Mr. Van
Buren is buried outside the base of
the monument toward the east.
The grave is marked by a granite
foot-stone, initialled on the top
M. V. B.

Mrs. Van Buren is buried to the south of the grave of her husband; the plot is marked by four slabs of marble, that originally formed a hollow monument, the stones in their order being inscribed :

An inscription on the remaining slab states hers to have been the first interment in the cemetery, and an added inscription that the body was re-interred in 1855.

The four slabs are finished by a granite foot-stone initialled H. V. B.

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON.

He was first buried April 7, 1841, in the Congressional Ground, at Washington, D. C. In July of that year his remains were taken to North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio.

There seems to have been a striking plainness in marking each restingplace of President Harrison, "who was twice in his life the idol of the people," as compared with the monuments that have been erected to the memory of the other Presidents, whether accidental or intentional is not disclosed.

"Upon a knoll, shaped in the dawn of time,

But flanked now with a forest's vista'd gloom,
And where the winds sob in perpetual rhyme
With old Ohio's dirge, there is a tomb.

No monument in towering grandeur there,
Writ o'er with all the stirring, thrilling story

Of how a hero grand toiled up to glory

'Gainst adverse fates that faced him everywhere,
But just a sepulchre, where now repose
The illustrious ashes of a son of man,

Who, by his might of worth, supremely rose
To shine conspicuous in a nation's van;
Just this, but sacred as the proudest one-
The humble grave of General Harrison."

-W. C. COOPER.

The original vault extended about five feet below the surface and was of the plainest construction; a square-walled pile of unfinished bricks, outwardly covered with weather-worn stucco; all underground with the exception of the gables which rose about two feet above the surface, the whole covered with a roofing of shingles. It contained six crypts on either side of a central passageway; in the right-hand crypt entombed in a marble sarcophagus rested the remains of the President; in the centre crypt next toward the door was buried his wife.

Underneath the centre of the front gable was the vault entrance, hidden by a plain, sloping "cellar door" of iron, with hinges, hasp, and padlock well rusted from age, resting in a wooden floor frame lying at a slight angle somewhat sunken in the grass, the descent into the vault being by wooden steps. Just above the vault entrance was a white marble slab

forming the lintel of the door, with the original intention of carving in it the name HARRISON. It was never done.

The President now lies buried in a vault located on the apex of an oblong mound in the midst of a pasture field about three hundred yards west of the site of the mansion in which he resided for many years. It is one hundred and fifty feet above the Ohio River, the point commanding a view of ideal beauty.

The land was deeded to the state of Ohio by his son John Scott Harrison, conditioned that the tomb should be kept in repair.

The present vault was built in 1897, the "old one" having fallen into dilapidation. It is built of blue limestone (lower silurian) taken from a

quarry in the neighborhood, walled within with brick, arched crypts around its sides, containing twenty-four loculi. It carries no inscription, except on the lintel over the door is carved the word

HARRISON.

The tomb is not a monument; there has been no contribution received from the public and no dedicatory exercises ever held since the remains of the President were placed here in 1841. In the rebuilding of the vault his body was not disturbed.

It is a family tomb, constructed and maintained by the family; nine of the President's family, including his wife, are here buried.

JOHN TYLER.

Was buried at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, with great honors, in what is known as the Presidents' Section-being about ten yards to the east of the grave of President Monroe. Fully fifty years ago the State Legislature passed resolutions authorizing the Governor to erect a suitable monument from the funds of the State. These intentions have never yet been carried out, owing to the bad condition of the State's finances. In 1899 a resolution to appropriate $10,000 was introduced in

terred at his home, Sherwood Forest, in Charles City County, Virginia, and if it had not been for the interposition of the State authorities, his family would long ago have erected a proper monument to his memory.

"I empower my dear wife to make out of my estate suitable provision for my burial, and let my body be consigned to the tomb in the earth of the county where I was born, there to repose till the day of resurrection. My wife will select the spot in Sherwood Forest [his residence] and mark it by an uncostly monument of granite or marble. An inscription will be found in the paper inclosing this."

-Extract of Will dated October 10th, 1859. Immediately after his death the General Assembly of the State of Virginia adopted a testimonial closing with these words :

"Resolved, That with the consent of his family his remains be deposited in Hollywood Cemetery in the city of Richmond, near the remains of James Monroe, and that the Governor of this State be authorized to cause a suitable monument to be erected to his memory."

Letitia Christian Tyler's tomb stands in the private burying ground of the Christian family at Cedar Grove, New Kent County, Virginia. The slab is of white marble on a brick support about eighteen inches from the ground. The inscription on the stone was written by President Tyler and reads:

All that is mortal of

LETITIA TYLER
wife of

JOHN TYLER

President of the United States
lies underneath this marble.
She departed this life
10. Sept. 1842.

At the President's House
in the City of Washington
in the 52nd year of her age.

Her life was an illustration of
the Christian virtues;
And her death the death
of the righteous.

The remains of JULIA GARDNER TYLER, the second wife of the President, is buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, in the same section as that of the President, her husband.

No stone marks the grave (1905).

JAMES KNOX POLK.

The remains of President Polk and those of his wife were on September 19, 1893, removed from the old family tomb in the yard of the Polk mansion, which stood at the corner of Vine and Union streets, and were re-interred in the grounds of the State capitol at Nashville, Tennessee.

The old monument was taken down and again erected over the new graves under an appropriation made by the State Legislature.

Upon the death of Mrs. Polk the Polk property was sold by the State, because the ex-President in his will had given the State the privilege to give his mansion to "the worthiest of the.Polk name," but as this was a case of perpetuity it was decided to be unlawful, therefore the final disposition by sale of the property and its division among the heirs of the family. The tomb in style is Grecian-Doric, though the columns are unfluted; they number four, and support a canopy of the usual architrave, frieze, cornice, and attic. The monument is twelve feet square and as many high, composed of native limestone. The centre of the flooring is occupied by a square block of stone, which rises to a height of about five feet, and though solid is of similar shape to the stone canopy. On the western front of the architrave of the monument is carved :

JAMES KNOX POLK

President of the U. S. Born Nov. 2 1795. Died June 15 1849.