Lion Guarding Confederate Cemetery - Higginsville, MO
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
N 39° 05.923 W 093° 43.782
15S E 436901 N 4327985
Monument on former Confederate Soldiers Home.
Waymark Code: WM4W12
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 10/04/2008
Published By:Groundspeak Charter Member BruceS
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Lion Erected by: The Missouri Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Date Erected: June 2, 1906.
County of Lion: Lafayette County.
Artist M.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.

Physical Address:
1st St., inside Missouri Confederate Memorial State Historic Site,
Jct. MO-213, busi. MO-13, & MO-20, 2 mile N. of
Higginsville, MO USA
64037

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