Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1896 — WHERE PRESIDENTS LIE BURIED [ARTICLE]

WHERE PRESIDENTS LIE BURIED

Twenty-one Tombs Contain All that Is Mortal of American Executives. 1. George Washington died from a cold which brought on laryngitlis; buried on his estate at Mount Vernon, Va. 2. John Adams died from senile debility; buried at Quincy. Mass. 3. Thomas Jefferson died of chronic diarrhoea; buried off his estate at Monticello, Va. 4. James Madison died of old age; burial on his estate at Montpelier, Va. 5. James Monroe died of general debility; buried in Marble cemetery, New York City. C. John Quincy Adams died of paralysis, the fatal attack overtaking him in the House of Representatives; buried at Quincy, Mass. 7. Andrew Jackson died of consumption and dropsy; buried on his estate, the Hermitage, near Nashville, Tenn. 8. Martin Van Buren died of catarrh of the throat and lungs; burled at Kinderhook, N. Y. 9. William Henry Harrison died of pleurisy, induced by a cold taken on the day of his inauguration; buried near North Bend, Ohio. 10. John Tyler died from a mysterious disorder like a bilious attack; buried at Richmond, Va. 11. James K. Polk died from weakness, caused by cholera; buried on his estate in Nashville, Tenn. 12. Zachary Taylor died from cholera morbus, induced by improper diet; buried on his estate near Louisville, Ky. 13. Millard Fillmore died from paralysis; buried In Forest Hill cemetery, Buffalo, N. Y. 14. Franklin Pierce died from inflammation of the stomach; buried at Concord. N. H. 15. James Buchanan died of rheumatism and gout; buried near Lancaster, Pa. 16. Abraham Lincoln, assassinated by J. Wilkes Booth; buried at Springfield, Ill. 17. Andrew Jackson died from paralysis; buried at Greenville, Tenn. 18. Ulysses S. Grant died from cancer of the throat; buried in Riverside Park, New York City. 10. Rutherford B. Hayes died from paralysis of the heart; buried at Fremont, Ohio. 20. James A. Garfield, assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau; buried at Cleveland, Ohio. 21. Chester A. Arthur died from Bright's disease; buried in Rural cemetery, Albany, N. Y.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.