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INTRODUCTORY Tour Moved in with His Wife’S Family in DC 90 pall bearers and 2,000 mourners. Local sculptor, Lot Flannery, created the 25-foot memorial, the tallest in the cemetery. $2,500 was appropriated in 1864 “for the relief of the sufferers.” R97/S142 14. MATHEW BRADY (1822–1896) is known as the father of photojournalism. His daguerreotypes vividly recorded 1 Thomas Tingey personalities and scenes of the Civil 2 Elbridge Gerry War. Brady followed the Union 3 Cenotaphs Revised 05.08.2020 Wm. Thornton 4 Army into the Battle of Bull. The 5 Push-Ma-Ta-Ha engraving of Abraham Lincoln on ESTABLISHED 1807 the five dollar bill is made from Mathew Brady, his photographic portrait. The Library of Congress Association for the Preservation of chemicals used in early photography Historic Congressional Cemetery brought on blindness in Brady forcing him to rely on staff to take most images. When the federal 16 6 J. Edgar Hoover 14 Mathew Brady Public Vault government did not buy his photographic plates after 7 Taza 15 Cokie Roberts the war, Brady was deeply in debt whereupon he 13 Arsenal Monument WalkingINTRODUCTORY Tour moved in with his wife’s family in DC. R72/S120 15. Mary Martha Corinne John Philip Sousa 12 10 Joseph Gales istory comes to life in Congressional Morrison Claiborne “COKIE” 8 Marion Barry Cemetery. The creak and clang of the BOGGS ROBERTS (1943 – 9 Anne Royall wrought iron gate signals your arrival into was an American journalist 2019) the early decades of our national heritage. In 1790, and bestselling author. Her the establishment of the District of Columbia as the career included decades as a Hnew center of the nation brought prominent citizens political reporter and analyst for from across the country to the banks of the Potomac National Public Radio and ABC Cokie Roberts River, along with the presidents, congressmen News, with prominent positions on Morning Edition, and justices, came builders, military leaders and The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, World News Tonight, and merchants—and their families—to build the new This Week. R53/121B 11 Belva Lockwood government and its new capital. A suitable burying By Hudson and Elwell at the National Portrait Gallery space within reasonable proximity to the community 16. THE PUBLIC VAULT was was soon in order, bringing about Washington Parish built by Congress in response Burial Ground, established by private citizens in to the many public burial. For A WORD OF CAUTION: The centuries have made many grave markers and sites unstable. Please be careful near grave markers 1807. By 1820, it was known as the “national burying Congressmen there was no charge and watch where you step: depressions and sink holes lie hidden in ground” due to the many grand funeral processions for the vault; others were charged grass, and footstones and corner markers can trip the unwary. for prominent national figures. These important a $5 fee. In sum, the remains of individuals from many walks of life create an exciting over 6,000 individuals were held tapestry of American heritage: architects and builders, until arrangements could be made John Quincy Adams The Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Association for the Preservation of musicians and explorers, patriots and scoundrels, for burials elsewhere, including pioneers and diplomats, and veterans of every war. those of Presidents John Quincy CemeteryJoin is a private, us! nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization established in Historic Congressional Cemetery 1976 and dedicated to the restoration, interpretation, and management Adams, William Henry Harrison, 1801 E Street SE This INTRODUCTORY of Congressional Cemetery. It is predominantly a volunteer-based and Zachary Taylor. Dolley Washington, DC 20003 TOUR highlights just a few of organization relying on over 400 neighbors, history buffs, conservators, Madison was placed in the Vault 202-543-0539 | Fax 202-543-5966 the hundreds of fascinating dogwalkers, and armed forces personnel each year to help restore and upon her death in 1849, because EMAIL: [email protected] people buried in Congressional maintain this national treasure. In 1979, the Association succeeded her son had bankrupted the family, www.congressionalcemetery.org Cemetery. As you walk the trail in having Congressional Cemetery listed on the National Register of she remained there for five years. Funding for the preservation and maintenance of Historic Congressional of this self-guided tour, note Historic Places. It became a National Historic Landmark in 2011. Please Cemetery is provided in part by the Congressional Cemetery Endowment, the artistry and craftsmanship The Public Vault was built in 1835 which was created with matching funds provided by the Congress of for $5,000 and repaired in 2005 at join the Association or make a donation and help in the third century of the United States and administered by the National Trust for Historic of the memorial stone carvings Preservation. The property is owned by Christ Church Washington Parish. a cost of $35,000. Dolley Madison service to the Nation’s Capital. and try to decipher the cultural 6 language of the iconography. Congressional Cenotaph The following are numbered to correspond with the map on 4. DR. WILLIAM 7. TAZA (Tahzay) (1842–1876) son of Apache Chief 1814, they destroyed his presses even though all other the back. Please also refer to the Range (R)and Site (S) grid THORNTON (1761–1828) Cochise, was brought to Washington in 1876 along with private homes and businesses were left untouched. He numbers to help locate each grave site. was a physician who did not 22 others of his tribe by an Indian agent with travel or was back in business the next day using borrowed metal practice medicine. He won expense money. To pay their way, they danced and were type. R55/S168 1. COMMODORE THOMAS TINGEY the competition for designing exhibited as side shows. Taza was fatally stricken with 11. BELVA LOCKWOOD (1830–1917) was (1750–1829) served in the British Navy before the U.S. Capitol in 1793. As pneumonia. His silver-handled coffin was drawn to the nominated for President of the United States in 1884 commanding merchant trade vessels in the West an amateur architect, he also cemetery in a “glass coach,” and a two-hour service by the National Equal Rights Indies. He emigrated to the North American designed the Octagon House, gave him the recognition he deserved as Chief of his Party. Even though women Colonies around the outbreak of the American Dr. William Thornton, Tudor Place and Woodlawn. Architecht of the Capitol tribe. The 1954 filmTaza , Son of Cochise stars Rock did not have voting rights, she Revolution. In 1798, he officially joined the new He won a gold medal for outlining a method of Hudson as Taza. This marker was placed in 1971 by the received 4,000 votes. Widowed U.S. Navy taking command of the 24-gun Ganges. teaching the deaf to speak. His talents as a painter, American Indian Society of Washington; the sculpture in 1853, she was determined to In 1800, he was appointed to lay out and command novelist and writer, coupled with his social graces and is based on an 1866 photograph of Naiche, mistakenly attend college and graduated the new Washington Navy Yard, a post he held enthusiasm for horse racing, placed him in the center believed to be Taza. R2/S125 at age 27. Despite her fine until his death in 1829. When the British invaded of Washington social life. R33/S39 8. MARION BARRY (1936-2014) was elected as the academic rating and ten years in the Capital in August of 1814, Tingey was the last mayor of Washington, D.C. four times in: 1978, 1982, the teaching profession, two law officer to leave the city, setting his Navy Yard afire 5. PUSH-MA-TA-HA (c.1764–1824) Choctaw Indian 1986, and 1994. Barry also schools denied her applications on the way out, and he was the first officer to return Belva Lockwood (c.1880) Chief, warrior and diplomat, served with Andrew served in various positions on Photo taken by M. Brady for fear that a 40-year-old to the smoldering ruins. A public service-minded Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans during the the D.C. Council for fifteen woman would “distract the other students.” The Vice gentleman, Tingey served on the first public school War of 1812. While in Washington seeking payment years. Before he moved to Chancellor gave her private instruction, but the faculty board, Vestry of Christ Church, and the board of debts owed by the Government to his nation, he Washington, D.C. in 1965, withheld her diploma until President Ulysses S. Grant of the Washington Parish Burial Ground (future died of croup in 1824 (the debts were unpaid until Barry presided over the as a Chancellor of the National University Law School Congressional Cemetery). R57/S1 1888). His military funeral, led Lemoyne College chapter of signed her diploma. Barred from arguing before the by Senator Andrew Jackson, 2. ELBRIDGE GERRRY Marion Barry the National Association for the Supreme Court based on “custom,” she successfully (1744–1814) served as stretched a full mile with Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and was drew up legislation to allow women to practice in that Madison’s second vice thousands in the procession the first national chairman of the Student Nonviolent court. She practiced law for 43 years, passing away three president in 1812 until and others lining the way to Coordinating Committee (SNCC). R20/ S191 years before women earned the right to vote. R78/S296 his resting place. The guns his death and is the only 9. ANNE ROYALL (1769–1854) is generally signer of the Declaration from Capitol Hill thundered 13.
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