Lion Guarding Confederate Cemetery - Higginsville, MO
Posted by: 
YoSam.
N 39° 05.913 W 093° 43.776
15S E 436910 N 4327966
Quick Description: Monument on former Confederate Soldiers Home.
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 10/4/2008 5:32:57 AM
Waymark Code: WM4W12
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Long Description:
Lion Erected by: The Missouri Division of the United Daughters
of the Confederacy.
Date Erected: June 2, 1906.
County of Lion: Lafayette County.
Artist R.H. Rice copied Lion of Lucerne (Bertel Thorwaldsen).
The shield of the Confederate States of America replaces the shield
of France in the original by Thorwaldsen.
A dying lion reclining on a square base set in a four-columned
canopied structure. The base and columns stand on a low
three-tiered structure. The lion's head rests on a shield of the
Confederate States of America. A seal flanked by four flags appears
on the square base.
