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Over a century and a half has passed since the creation of the Mount Hope Cemetery, and during this time the material composition of the monuments erected there have changed in accordance to trends, wealth, and available materials.  While limestone was the predominant material used in the creation of headstones in the early 19th century, the late 1800s saw exponential growth in the industry of granite, especially in the Northeastern United States. \*??\[*[*2*|http://http://www.stonebtb.com/news/The-early-1800s-marked-the-rise-of-the-American-granite-industry-15605.shtml]*\]*   Granite, an igneous rock, became the stone of choice for the creation of monuments due to its hardness, resistance to weathering, ability to be polished, and overall availability during this period.  Due to this boom in popularity, granite headstone and monuments began appearing throughout Mount Hope, scattered amongst limestone and marble monuments that had passed trend similarly.  

This monument has withstood a considerable amount of deterioration, but remains solid in its foundation and engravingsinscriptions. The distinctive red granite sets the monument apart from the rest of the headstones in the plot, as well as the environmental damage which has occurred around it.  The monument rests on a concrete base which was placed to support it.  The West face of the monument holds the names of John, his wife Elizabeth, and their daughter Emma who had died prematurely as a child.  John himself died of natural causes, and his wife Elizabeth from cancer. ???\[[3|http://lib.rochester.edu/IN/RBSCP/Databases/IMAGES/MtHope/disc1/00000398.pdf]\] The South side of the monument is reserved for John's sister Elizabeth, who passed due to a respiratory illness. Her husband, P.B. Dedrick, has his named inscribed on the East side of the monument, and died from cystitis. There is no particular iconography throughout the entirety of the monument, with the exception of a sole crest located on the sister's side: