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 JOHN TYLER 83 May, 1861, he was unanimously elected a mem ber of the provisional congress of the Confederate states. In the following autumn he was elected to the permanent congress, but he died before taking his seat. He was buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, where as yet his grave, near that of James Monroe, is, strange to say, unmarked.* His biography has been ably written by Lyon Gardiner Tyler, &quot;The Letters and Times of the Tylers&quot; (3 vols., Richmond, 1884- 96). See also &quot;Seven De cades of the Union,&quot; by Henry A. Wise (Phila delphia, 1872). His wife, LETITIA CHRISTIAN, born at Cedar Grove, New Kent County, Va., November 12, 1790; died in Washington, D. C., September 9, 1842, was the daughter of Robert Christian, a planter in New Kent County, Va. She married Mr. Tyler on March 29, 1813, and removed with the Presidents Section, being about ten yards to the east of the grave of Monroe. When the writer visited the cemetery, in 1893, no stone marked his own or Mrs. Julia Tyler s grave. Before the war Virginia passed resolutions authorizing the governor to erect an appropriate monument from the funds of the state, but owing to the condition of her finances this has not yet been done. By his will Mr. Tyler s remains were to be buried at his home, Sherwood Forest, in Charles City County, and but for Virginia s interposition his family would long since have erected a suitable monument to his memory. The last session of Congress appropriated the sum of $10,000 to immediately erect a national monument over the grave of President Tyler. EDITOR.
 * Mr. Tyler was interred with great honors in what is known as