Freestone Monuments

Freestone Monuments - Theses monuments are carved from what is called freestone so called because it can be cut in one pieces without splintering or fracturing.  Many of these monuments are created with one solid piece.

All of these are located at Mount Holly Cemetery in Little Rock, AR.

This is the largest freestone monument in Mount Holly. It is 16 ft tall and 9 ft wide.

In Memory
of

William Gilchrist , Esq.

First Grand Master of the Grand

Lodge of the State of Arkansas

Who departed this life Sept 5, 1843

in the 53rd year of his age.

This Stone

is erected by

The Masonic Fraternity

under the direction of

The Grand Lodge of the State of

Arkansas

A.L. 5850

In

Memory

of

John Cooper

A Native of Scotland

Kinross Shire Who

Depart this life

August 29th, 1840

Aged 28 years

--

Er'd by his friends Jas McVicar, Sam McMorrin, & Robt Brownlee

Note: He was originally buried at the former cemetery at 5th & Gaines in Little Rock, his body was moved to Mt. Holly Cemetery after it opened in 1843.

Sarah Caroline

Daughter of

James Owens

and wife of

Elijah A. More

who departed this life

on the 24th day of

January 1839

in the 25th year

of her age  

Dedicated by

Ebenezer Walters

in memory

of his wife Mary

who departed this

Life July 15, 1843

in the 21st year of

her age and of her

parents Alexander

and Olive Starbuck

whose only child

she was.

The soul too soft its ills to bear

Has left our mortal hemisphere

And sought in better world the meed

To blame less life by heaven deereed.

When musing companisins gone

We doubly feel ourselves alone.

Note: The quote on this monument is from Sir Walter Scott's poem Rokeby.