(Cemetery Monument of Bem Price), (sculpture).

(Cemetery Monument of Bem Price), (sculpture).

Unknown, sculptor.

(Cemetery Monument of Bem Price), (sculpture).

Relief: ca. 1900; Obelisk and base: ca. 1930s.

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Relief: marble; Obelisk and base: granite.

Relief: approx. 25 x 18 1/2 x 3 in.; Obelisk: approx. 220 x 37 x 37 in.; Base: approx. 17 x 62 x 62 in.

(On east face of obelisk, under relief:) BEM PRICE/"THE SUN OF A/WELL SPENT DAY/HAS SET, QUIET/HAS COME TO/BUSY HANDS, REST/TO WEARY FEET,/AND FOREVER AND/EVER PEACE." unsigned

A granite obelisk, of Egyptian-revival style with a matching Egyptian-revival base, both with hand carving. Bolted to the east face of the obelisk is an oval, marble, hand-carved portrait of Bem Price. He is seen with beard and moustache. He wears a suit coat and is turned slightly to the proper left.

Portrait male -- Price, Bem -- Bust

Outdoor Sculpture -- Mississippi -- Oxford

Administered by City of Oxford, Sanitation, 107 South Lamar Boulevard, Oxford, Mississippi 38655

Located St. Peter's Cemetery, Oxford, Mississippi 38655

According to the Save Outdoor Sculpture survey, the obelisk and base were fabricated ca. 1930s. The relief portrait may possibly pre-date the rest of the monument, as it appears to date earlier, from the turn of the century.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Mississippi survey, 1992.

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