Every time we so much as touch a toe out of state of matter , I ’ve put cemeteries on our travel itinerary . From garden - comparable expanses to overgrown bang hill , whether they ’re the last resting seat of the well - have it off but not that important or the important but not that well - known , I love them all . After take in that there are a lot of taphophiles out there , I ’m in the end putting my archive of interesting tombstones to good consumption .
Before he was president , William Henry Harrison had a whole host ofaccomplishmentsunder his belt . He had been governor of the Indiana Territory , a major general in the Army who led triumph in the Battle of Tippecanoe and the War of 1812 , and , eventually , a U.S. Congressman and senator from Ohio .
After his term of office as POTUS , however , the 9th chair became most far-famed for something else . With just a month at the White House , Old Tippecanoe had the shortest presidential term in account — and he was the first president to die in office .
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It ’s long been said that Harrison ’s untying was his long , wet inaugural address on March 4 , 1841 . He spentnearly two hoursorating in the chilly D.C. element — it was damp and only about 48 degrees — with no coat or hat . A frigidness he had turned intopneumonia , and by April 4 , he was dead .
The country had never mourned a United States President before , but they see out how to broadcast Harrison off in a salient way mold after royal funerals . After a simple service of process in the East Room of the White House , 24 snowy - sashed pallbearers carried Harrison in a funeral advance watch by more than 10,000 people . His saddled but riderless sawhorse , Old Whitey , followedthe advance to the Capitol . Later , when the cold wintertime in Ohio was finally over , Harrison was transport down the Ohio River via a serial publication of black - draped barges , arriving at his last finish of North Bend , Ohio . The president hadrequesteda spot there overlooking the river and the corners of Ohio , Indiana , and Kentucky .
Though the demesne Harrison was lay to rest on in the first place belonged to the family , his Logos , John Scott Harrison , subsequently donated it to the Department of State of Ohio under the condition that they keep and preserve it . John Scott himself was laid to rest there in 1878 . Alsoburiedthere are First Lady Anna Symmes Harrison ; daughter Mary Symmes Harrison Thornton ; granddaughter Anna Harrison Thornton Fitzhugh ; large - grandson George C. Eaton , Jr. , and Arch Irwin Eaton ; and several other family member .
Peruse all the entries in our Grave Sightings serieshere .
