Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1887 — The Makeever Monument. [ARTICLE]

The Makeever Monument.

John idakeever's family monument, in the Weston -cemetei y, .Im# just be en completed by the . placing in position of the symbolical ! female dig. r , which crowns the work. ...Tiie contract for tills monument was M 1 last ."Miff, to ijtiuespving. 4 Rockwoud, of Lai fayettc*. it consists ni a sandstone base, six feet cube, and which ex-tcnds-""Ftght inches aboTir"'"ti:iT _ ground; the pedestal, consisting of I three large blocks cf black Quin-- ; cy, Mass., granite,eaclvblockscim-- ; v. nat smaller smaller thru the cine; beneath it. . ml above jihese the r omshaf tj a ink the cap and the plintli. all of the s ne material. Above ■ tkese stnud.-i rhe beautiful draped jtiajyro, nf p.-irp while Italian- JUjES- , ' l>te, and \vhich -was made in Italy. j Thertveight -of 4 life structure y mofe inc 1 the foundation, m about 15 tons; and of the-statue t lie ton. The total height ot tiie monument is about 17 fee Lbs proper i are massive*and suggest dim idea 'oF a Imost emitess (Turabdity. The contract cost of the work was fifteen huudred dollars. —•- . - ' You can buy a set of .hu.-i"-Band ware of La P.umßros. •terQthan aßy place in Jfesper oouja-’* ty. ' {