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His funeral was held at 9:00 a.m. on November 22 at the Church of the Heavenly Rest on Fifth Avenue in New York City. As the family wished, it was a simple service with only a small military honor guard. Flags throughout the city were lowered to half staff, and many public and private buildings were draped in mourning. President Grover Cleveland attended. Pallbearers included Robert Todd Lincoln, Charles Louis Tiffany, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. Arthur’s body was taken to Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, New York, for burial. His elaborate tomb lies to the right of his beloved wife Nell’s in the Arthur family plot.

Touring Chester Arthur’s Tomb at Albany Rural Cemetery

The Albany Rural Cemetery is located in Menands, New York. The cemetery is open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. during the summer months). Admission is free.

From Saratoga Springs: Take I-87 South to Alternate Route 7. From Alternate Route 7, head east to Highway 787. Take Highway 787 South to exit 7 west. Bear right, heading towards Menands/Loundenville. At the first traffic signal, take a right. Albany Rural Cemetery is located on the left.

From Utica: Take I-90 East to exit 24. From exit 24 continue on I-90 East to Highway 787 North. Take Highway 787 North to exit 7 West. From exit 7 West follow Route 32. Turn right on Route 32. Albany Rural Cemetery is on the left.

Look for red, white, and blue signs marking President Arthur’s gravesite. Cemetery maps are available at the gate.

For additional information

Albany Rural Cemetery

Cemetery Avenue

Menands, NY 12204

Phone: (518) 463-7017

Fax: (518) 463-0785

The entrance to Chester Arthur’s final resting place

“An elegant New Yorker, Chester A. Arthur refused to move into the shabby Executive Mansion…”

—Richard Norton Smith

An elegant New Yorker, Chester A. Arthur refused to move into the shabby Executive Mansion pending its extensive renovation by Louis Tiffany. Soon the old house was replete with pomegranate plush hangings and jeweled glass screens. To the abstemious Rutherford B. Hayes, Arthur’s White House reeked of “liquor, snobbery and worse.” Arthur indulged his stylish tastes more permanently in the autumn of 1886, when Cornelius Vanderbilt’s private railroad car carried the former president to Rural Cemetery in Albany. There his grave is marked by a black granite sarcophagus over which a bronze Angel of Sorrow, green-tinted with age, stands vigil.

—RNS

Plaque at the base of the Arthur tomb

Grover Cleveland

Buried: Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, New Jersey

Twenty-second President - 1885-1889

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Twenty-fourth President - 1893-1897

Born: March 18, 1837, in Caldwell, New Jersey

Died: 8:40 a.m. on June 24, 1908, in Princeton, New Jersey

Age at death: 71

Cause of death: Heart failure

Final words: “I have tried so hard to do right.”

Admission to Princeton Cemetery: Free

Grover Cleveland is remembered for four unusual reasons: He was the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms, as our twenty-second and twenty-fourth president. He was the only president to marry in the White House, where he wed Frances Folsom, twenty-eight years his junior. He was the only president to support an out-of-wedlock child—the opposition’s 1884 campaign slogan, “Ma, Ma, where’s my Pa?” nearly costing him the election. Finally, he was the only president to have a popular candy bar named after his daughter, Baby Ruth.

Grover Cleveland also had one medical distinction: he was the only president with a rubber jaw. During his second term, on a boat in Manhattan’s East River, doctors secretly performed surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in Cleveland’s mouth. His upper left jaw was removed and replaced with a rubber prosthesis. The details of the operation were not made known until after Cleveland’s death.

Grover Cleveland’s grave in Princeton Cemetery

Cleveland retired to Princeton, New Jersey, after leaving the White House for the final time in 1897. He fell victim to medical difficulties in his later years: inflamed