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The Midway Society requests funds to preserve the church and cemetery in Lambert, Georgia. President Roosevelt is a descendant of Midway Society member General Daniel Stewart.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-25
Mallard, W. M.; Stacy, Jas.; Wilkins, Grant; Norman, N. J.; Way, A. S.
A guard stands guard over the late Theodore Roosevelt’s grave
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1919-04-23
President Roosevelt was a good friend of Bradley S. Johnson’s father and is saddened by his death. Roosevelt hopes the flowers he sent reached the cemetery.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10-07
Joseph Smith writes to President Roosevelt soliciting a contribution to help friends of the late James Jeffrey Roche place a memorial over his grave site, which currently sits unmarked.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-08
Miscellaneous notes from an interview with Ray Lingk of Beach, North Dakota, including information on a speech Theodore Roosevelt made in Beach, North Dakota, and Poker Jim’s graveyard.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-04-06
Newton J. Norman thanks President Roosevelt for his contribution to the preservation of the old Midway Church and its cemetery in Liberty County, Georgia. Norman shares that Declaration of Independence signer Lyman Hall had been a member of the church, and that an ancestor of Roosevelt’s, General Daniel Stewart, had also been a member and was in fact buried in the cemetery.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-23
This postcard shows a view of the cemetery in Santiago de Cuba. A person walks down a neatly maintained path over which hang a variety of trees. On either side are sarcophagi and tombs surrounded by fences.
1910
Photograph shows parade of Boy Scouts carrying U.S. flags on path leading to the grave of Theodore Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1936
Photograph shows tombstone of Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1919
Photograph shows a United States Army officer laying a wreath at the grave of Theodore Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1944
Photograph shows Boy Scout Alan Wallace kneeling next to a wreath at the grave of Theodore Roosevelt as National Scout Commissioner George J. Fisher looks on.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1950
President Roosevelt holds the head of a man in a “political cemetery” as Roosevelt and New York Governor Benjamin B. Odell stand by “the ‘easy’ boss” headstone.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-27
In this message, President Roosevelt recommends that Congress fund an appropriation to search for the remains of Admiral John Paul Jones in Paris, France. Roosevelt believes it is improper for a national hero like Jones to lie in an unmarked grave and urges Congress “to do proper honor to the memory of Paul Jones.” Roosevelt also recommends the erection of monuments to Jones and Admiral John Barry, since they “hold unique positions in the history of the birth of our Navy.” A report from Ambassador to France Horace Porter about the subject is also included.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1905-02-13
King Albert of Belgium visits Theodore Roosevelt’s grave in Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, and is accompanied by his son Prince Leopold, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., and several dignitaries. Identified in the film are Brand Whitlock, Ambassador to Belgium, walking in the rear of the group, and a man who may be Joseph M. Nye walking beside King Albert. Interior title states that King Albert requested that no pictures be taken at the grave site. Film contains only shots of the King’s party walking from the grave and of Theodore Roosevelt Jr., King Albert, and an unidentified man sitting in an open car ready to depart.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1919
President Roosevelt regrets that he cannot attend the unveiling of the union soldiers’ widows memorial at Elmwood Cemetery. He sends his best wishes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-16
William McKinley, Benjamin Harrison, and John Sherman are pictured as old women in mourning among gravestones labeled, “Here lies our dear McKinley Bill. Ruthlessly assassinated in the flower of its youth by the tariff reform bandits of the 53rd Congress,” “Sacred to the memory of the Federal Election Law, annihilated by the guerrillas of the 53rd Congress. R.I.P.,” and “Here lies the Sherman Silver Law. Cruelly done to death by G. Cleveland. We bear our loss with fortitude.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-09-12
An elderly physician holding a box labeled “Old School Drug Cure” sits with bottles of various drugs labeled “Opium, Strychnine, Calomel, Morphine, Arsenic, Poisons, [and] Squills” in front of a crowded “Chockful Cemetery.” A younger man stands in the street, holding a large book labeled “New School Mind Cure,” with a sparsely populated cemetery labeled “No drugs Cemetery” behind him.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-04-06
Justice, holding a large sword and carrying a lantern, and with a cloth labeled “Justice” over her mouth, searches a cemetery, among tombstones labeled “Formed no opinion died 1660, Formed no opinion 1600, Haven’t read papers 1776, [and] No opinion died 1670,” for jurors who are uninformed of the assassination of President James A. Garfield. The image includes an insert showing a man hanging from a gibbet labeled “Verdict of 50,000,000 Illustrated.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1881-10-26
Print shows the spirit of an executed murderer rising to Heaven as a minister wipes clean the “Blackboard of Crime” on which are “Murder, Arson, [and] Robb[ery]” with the “Sponge of Absolution” as “years of sin [are] wiped out in ten minutes.” Meanwhile “the wife of the victim experiences Hell on Earth” at a cemetery in the upper left, and “the ‘unprepared’ victim” descends to the flames of “Purgatory” accompanied by devils.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-06-28
Print shows a statue of Roscoe Conkling, with cloven hooves, seated on a bench labeled “Supreme Bench” atop a monumental tomb labeled “Sacred to the Memory of J. A. Garfield”; the monument is signed “Guiteau sculpt.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-03-08
Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913