of ten thousand dollars made for the erection of a suitable
monument.

W.W. Corcoran, of Washington, endowed a professorship of natural history
at the University of Virginia on condition that the university should take
care of the grave. It is a place of exquisite natural beauty and grandeur,
and is now marked by a fitting monument, inscribed as was the old one, a
rough sketch of which was found. The inscription is as follows:

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration
of Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious
Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia. Born
April 2 (O.S.), 1743; died July 4, 1826.

Jefferson's death preceded that of John Adams by only one hour.

James Madison is buried at his beautiful home, Montpelier, four miles from
Orange, Virginia. An attractive lawn of about sixty acres surrounds the
brick mansion, and in the center of this is an enclosure, one hundred feet
square, fenced in by a brick wall some five feet high. In this enclosure
is the grave of Madison. Three other graves are near it, one of them being
Mrs. Madison's.

Over the dead President's grave is a mound, from the top of which rises a
granite obelisk twenty feet high.

Near the base are inscribed the words:

MADISON.

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 gratin