Wallace Brown Monument, (sculpture).

Wallace Brown Monument, (sculpture).

Unknown, sculptor.

Wallace Brown Monument, (sculpture).

Sculpture: limestone; Base: limestone.

Sculpture: approx. 1 ft. 3 in. x 1 ft. 7 in. x 1 ft. 4 in.; Base: approx. 2 ft. x 2 ft. 8 in. x 2 ft. 8 in.

(On front of base, incised lettering:) BROWN/WALLACE B./FEB. 12, 1872/NOV. 5, 1939/AGE 67 YRS.

A small, detailed replica of a log cabin with a shingled roof, a chimney on the left side and rounded logs notched at the corners. The front of the cabin has a door with a scythe leaning at the left and an axe at the right. A window is further to the right. The sculpture, which marks the grave of Wallace Brown, is mounted on a square block with a wide bottom.

Architecture -- Domestic -- Cottage

Object -- Tool -- Scythe

Object -- Tool -- Axe

Homage -- Brown, Wallace B.

Occupation -- Farm -- Farmer

Outdoor Sculpture -- Indiana -- Mitchell

Freedom Cemetery, State Route 37, south of town, Mitchell, Indiana

The sculpture marks the grave of Wallace Brown (1872-1939), a farmer who built a log cabin on Meridian Road just east of Mitchell, Indiana. The sculpture is a near replica of the cabin Brown constructed. A stonecarver from the Bedford, Indiana area may have created the sculpture. IAS files contain a related article from the Times-Mail, May 29, 1993, pg. C1, 3.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Indiana survey, 1993.

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