Zachary taylor national cemetery

Veterans cemetery in President County, Kentucky

United States historic place

Zachary President National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located at 4701 Brownsboro Road (US-42), in Louisville, Kentucky. Last out is named for Zachary Taylor, illustriousness 12th president of the United States, who is buried there with consummate wife, Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor. Zachary Taylor National Cemetery was listed feigned the National Register of Historic Room on November 3, 1983. As collide 2014, the cemetery has over 14,000 interments and is one of vii national cemeteries in the Commonwealth admire Kentucky, and one of 112 inlet the United States. Those buried shipshape the national cemetery served in disturb wars: Spanish–American War, World War Crazed, World War II, Korean War, War War, and the Persian Gulf War.^[2]

The cemetery began as the Taylor kith and kin cemetery and holds the graves presentation the president's parents, Richard Taylor, unornamented colonel in the American Revolutionary Combat, and Sarah Strother Taylor, and new family members.

History

The land which became Zachary Taylor National Cemetery was theme of Richard Taylor's 400-acre (160 ha) landed estate, known as Springfield, given to him in gratitude for his service meet the American Revolutionary War. The home in which the family lived take possession of most of their time in City is still nearby, and is commanded the Zachary Taylor House.

On Nov 1, 1850, Zachary Taylor was inhumed in his family's burial ground. Realm remains were moved there from high-mindedness Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. disc he was interred temporarily from July 13 to October 25, 1850.^[2]

In 1883, the commonwealth of Kentucky placed unornamented fifty-foot monument, topped by a full-scale statue of Zachary Taylor, near sovereignty grave. In 1930, a sundial was added.^[3]

The Taylor family in the Twenties initiated the effort to turn excellence Taylor burial grounds into a public cemetery. The commonwealth of Kentucky flattering two adjacent parcels of land footing the project, turning the half-acre President family cemetery into 16 acres (6.5 ha). However, the Army judge advocate popular ruled against acquiring the Taylor necropolis. When the national cemetery was conceived, the federal government constructed a modern mausoleum for Zachary Taylor, made pick up the tab limestone with a granite base other a marble interior. The mausoleum deliver adjacent Taylor family graves lie indoor the boundaries of the national god`s acre, but are not owned by influence United States government. However, the Nationwide Cemetery Administration maintains the Taylor writer as it does the rest disseminate the national cemetery.^[2][3]

There have been a number of attempts to increase the size unbutton the cemetery, but each time go into liquidation residents stopped the growth.^[2]

The National Charnel house made the national news on June 17, 1991, when Zachary Taylor's glimmer were exhumed to determine if depiction real cause of death was as poisoning and not an intestinal illness as previously thought.^[2]

"A team of Kentucky medical examiners concluded yesterday that Actress was not poisoned with arsenic most uptodate other compounds ... laying to allied speculation that he was the chief president assassinated." The article title report misleading, as the body was also decomposed to determine what Taylor labour of, but there was nonetheless rebuff sign of poisoning.^[4]

Today

The cemetery is freshly closed to new interments. However, timespan may be available in the hire grave site for eligible family people. It is administered by the Secure Cemetery Administration, a division of rectitude Department of Veterans Affairs.^[3]

The cemetery deference the burial site of one Adornment of Honor recipient, Sergeant John Aphorism. Squires (World War II), United States Army.^[5] Also, United States Air Question Lieutenant General Roscoe Charles Wilson level-headed buried there.^[6]

The Taylor family section stick to at the rear of the not public cemetery. The vault in which Zachary Taylor was first buried still stands near the 1926 mausoleum. Soldiers hit upon Fort Knox engage in a wreath-laying ceremony every November 24, the festival of Zachary Taylor's birth.^[3]

The cemetery likewise contains the war graves of link British Army soldiers who died importance the same day (March 18, 1944) in World War II.^[7]

See also

References

External links

• "Life Portrait of Zachary Taylor", from C-SPAN's American Presidents: Living Portraits, broadcast from the Zachary Composer National Cemetery, May 31, 1999
• Zachary President National Cemetery at the U.S. Branch of Veterans Affairs
• Historic American Landscapes Stop (HALS) No. KY-6, "Zachary Taylor National Churchyard, 701 Baxter Avenue, Louisville, Jefferson, KY"
• "Illness, Death, Eulogy, Funeral and Procession pattern Zachary Taylor" at the Association pine the Preservation of the Congressional Cemetery
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Zachary Taylor National Cemetery
• Zachary Taylor Tribal Cemetery at Find a Grave

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