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140Carver George Grey Barnard honored his parents%u2019 grave with the limestone statue (previous page, lower right), which is titled %u201cImmortality.%u201d It was described in an early newspaper account as %u201can incomparably beautiful figure of a woman in the matching loveliness of mature perfection and form...(and) the lovely hands are uplifted, parting the veil that encircles the voiceless silence of dreamless dust.%u201d Barnard was a prolific and talented carver. Examples of his work can be found in Cairo. IL (Abraham Lincoln), the Langesand Cemetery in Norway, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.Master stone carver Harold %u201cDugan%u201d Elgar began his career in 1927 but it was interrupted by World War II and a return to school. While at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis he created the model of a Piet%u00e0 which was accepted for a national competition, and won him fame as a sculptor. However, it wasn%u2019t until years later, in 1968, after suffering a heart attack, that he began working on the full-size version (below left). Today, it sits atop his grave and that of his wife.Of the many statues Ernest M. Viquesney%u2014a nationally recognized sculptor%u2014created, he is best known locally for his World War I doughboys, which decorate Midwestern courthouse lawns and cemeteries. A native of Spencer, Indiana, he crafted %u201cThe Unveiling%u201d (below right) for the grave of his wife Cora, who died in 1933. At a church service, in which Viquesney was being honored, and a model of the statue was presented to the public, Viquesney read a poem he wrote. Here are the first few lines:What is it in lifeless clay, the sculptor finds,From which to mould his living thought?The clay, insensate, cannot think, nor act,Just lifeless cold%u2014it stands for naught.But spark of life, and form and beauty rise,When sculptor%u2019s hands the vision realize.Clear Creek CemeteryMonroe Co. (267-04)Riverview CemeteryOwen Co. (317-05)