<P> Monuments on the Capitol grounds include statues of two of the three Tennessee residents who served as President of the United States : Andrew Jackson by Clark Mills and Andrew Johnson by Jim Gray . The second President from Tennessee , James K. Polk , is buried in a tomb on the grounds , together with his wife , Sarah Childress Polk . Other monuments on the grounds include the Sgt . Alvin C. York Memorial by Felix de Weldon , the Tennessee Holocaust Commission Memorial , the Sam Davis Memorial at the southwest corner of the Capitol grounds , the Sen. Edward Ward Carmack Memorial located above the Motlow Tunnel near the south entrance , and the Memorial to Africans during the Middle Passage at the southwest corner of Capitol grounds . The Charles Warterfield Reliquary is a group of broken limestone columns and fragments removed and saved from the State Capitol during the mid-1950s restoration , located near the northern belvedere on Capitol Drive . </P>
who is buried in the walls of the tennessee state capitol
James K. Polk Sarah Childress Polk