Hugh Blair Grigsby - Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell

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The vault, which was made only large enough to receive the coffin, was
composed of solid slabs of granite united by hydraulic cement, five feet
below the surface, and was covered by another slab of granite. The vault
was then covered with earth, and was ready to receive the monument,
which is soon to be erected. The grave was in an enclosure bounded by
iron rails, and containing the tombs of Mrs. Tazewell, the wife of the
deceased, of HENRY TAZEWELL, Esq., his eldest son, and of LITTLETON
WALLER TAZEWELL, Esq., his youngest son. The burial-ground is on the
estate of King's creek, which was given by the deceased to his son, JOHN
N. TAZEWELL, Esq., who still owns it, and which holds the remains of a
number of the ancestors of Mrs. Tazewell--this last circumstance having
led to its selection as a place of sepulchre for the family.

It was the public wish that the body of Mr. Tazewell should be deposited
in one of the beautiful cemeteries of Norfolk, a city with which his
name had been so long connected, and where the stranger would naturally
seek his grave, and, I may add, where the lesson of such a pure and
illustrious life might be read in the course of the year by thousands of
his countrymen; but the peculiar circumstances of the case rendered the
scheme impracticable. I must, however, still indulge the hope that,
hereafter, when the insecurity of graves on private estates, so signally
represented by our Virginia experience, is fully considered, the
descendants of this great man may in due time consent to the removal of
his remains and those of the family to some more accessible and less
exposed situation.

No. VI.

PORTRAITS OF GOVERNOR TAZEWELL.

1. A miniature of Mr. Tazewell before his marriage in 1802, by an
unknown artist. It could not have been good at any period of his life.

2. The portrait by Thomson, taken in 1816, when he was about forty,
which is a faithful likeness, and the most intellectual of all his
portraits which I have seen.

3. A copy of the above, by Leonard, a pupil of Thomson.

4. A Crayon, by St. Mimin, taken in 1812, from which the engravings of
Mr. Tazewell were taken.

5. A portrait by Theodore Kennedy, taken when Mr. Tazewell was about
seventy. It has some good touches; but it lacks that high intellectual
expression which was always present in the features of the original.

6. A Pastile from the above.

7. A portrait by Bonaud de St. Marcel, taken from a daguerreotype. It
represents Mr. Tazewell in his eighty-fourth year, and is under size. It
is a faithful copy from the daguerreotype, but it fails entirely to
impart that majesty of feature which the face of the original retained
to the last.

8. The portrait by Healy, kit-cat size, taken as Mr. Tazewell was in
1830, and designed to be inserted in the painting of the Senate of the
United States during the debate on the resolutions of Mr. Foote, of
Connecticut. The family of Mr. Tazewell regard this portrait as the
finest ever taken of him. I have never seen it; nor has the family ever
seen the painting into which it was to be introduced. Mr. Tazewell was
fifty-seven or eight at the time.

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