President John Tyler, Born in 1790, Still Has 2 Living Grandsons
From the Confederate Veteran Magazine, Volume 4, 1916, pages 4-5.
John Tyler, distinguished
Virginian and tenth President of the United States, has received
fitting, though long-deferred, honor from the country he served.
Fifty-three years after his death the United States government has
erected a handsome monument at his last resting place, in the shades of
beautiful Hollywood Cemetery, at Richmond, Va., that sacred and
consecrated spot where lie the ashes of so many distinguished dead. On a
crest overlooking the James River and near the tomb of James Monroe,
fifth President of the United States and the fourth Virginian to be so honored, this magnificent shaft blazons to the world that national recognition of one who did a noble part by his country, yet whose convictions led him to leave the Union and cast his lot with his native State when the sections became separated. President Tyler upheld
Virginia in her secession, representing her in the Provisional Congress
of the Confederacy, and he was also member-elect of the permanent
Congress when his death occurred in 1862.
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