Kitchens Monument, (sculpture).

Kitchens Monument, (sculpture).

Unknown, sculptor.

Kitchens Monument, (sculpture).

Dedicated 1907.

Sculpture: stone; Base: concrete.

Sculpture: approx. H. 16 ft.; Base: approx. H. 9 in.

(Front, below bust, raised:) KITCHENS (On left side:) LLEWELLYN KITCHENS/FEB. 19, 1892/MARCH 13, 1907/He did not fall/Like drooping of flowers/That no man noticeth/Like the great branch/Of some stately tree/Rent in the tempest and/Flung down to death,/Thick with green leafage-/Each passer by that ruin/Shuddereth and sayeth/The gap that breach has/Left is wide,/The loss therof can never be supplied. unsigned

An obelisk draped with a curtain with folds and with three tassels. On the front of the obelisk is a relief bust of Llewellyn Kitchens wearing a coat, bow tie and shirt.

Portrait male -- Kitchens, Llewellyn -- Bust

Outdoor Sculpture -- Georgia -- Mitchell

Administered by City of Mitchell, Main Street, Mitchell, Georgia 30820

Located Mitchell City Hall, Town square adjacent, Main Street, Mitchell, Georgia

Llewellyn Kitchens, son of Tim T. Kitchens and Sarah Sybil Kitchens died in 1907 at the age of fifteen. The Kitchens family was influential in the early formation of City of Mitchell. IAS files contain related article from The Gibson Record & Guide (Gibson, GA), Feb. 10, 1994, pg. 2A.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Georgia survey, 1994.

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