Born March 16, 1751.
A smaller monument beside it bears the record, "In memory of Dolly Payne,
wife of James Madison; born May 20th, 1772; died July 8, 1849."
James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States, and was the
third out of the five to die on July 4. For twenty-seven years after his
death his body rested at New York, where he had died, but on July 4, 1858,
it was removed, by order of the General Assembly of Virginia, to Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, and re-interred there on July 5.
A brick and granite vault, built five feet under ground on an eminence
overlooking the beautiful valley of the James River, now holds the body.
On a polished block of Virginia marble, eight feet by four, stands a large
granite sarcophagus bearing a brass plate with this inscription:
James Monroe, born in Westmoreland County, 28th of April,
1758; died in the city of New York 4th of July, 1831. By
order of the General Assembly his remains were removed to
this cemetery 5th of July, 1858. As an evidence of the
affection of Virginia for her good and honored son.
The ends and sides of the vault are formed by ornamental cast iron grating
joining the supporting pillars, and so closely made as to render it
difficult to see through the interstices.
Andrew Jackson is buried in the garden of his home, the Hermitage, eleven
miles from Nashville, Tennessee. The grave is about two hundred feet from
the house. A circular space of earth, eighteen feet across and elevated
about two feet, is crowned by a massive monument of Tennessee limestone
marking the spot where Jackson and his wife lie. The base covers the
graves, and from it rise eight fluted columns supporting a plain
entablature surmounted by an urn. The ceiling and cornices thus formed are
ornamented with white stucco work.
From a base on this encolumned platform rises a pyramid. On the left, over
the body of the President, is a stone bearing the inscription: