Veterans

The Sol­diers’ Monu­ment was form­ally presen­ted to the cemetery on dec­or­a­tion day 1921. It stands at the second angle of the drive. Eighty loads of dirt were placed around it rais­ing the grade nearly two feet from what it was.

The monu­ment has a base, sub-base and stands 7 feet above the found­a­tion. It has square corners, is a plain but im­pos­ing look­ing stone. All who have seen it ad­mire it. Mr. Ray­mond Hoare of Ithaca, who fur­nished the monu­ment, is given great cred­it for his part of the work. 

This monu­ment was presen­ted to Lake View Cemetery by the late Madis­on Cov­ert, who was a mem­ber of Co. C 126th New York Volunteers dur­ing the civil war. He made pro­vi­sion in his will for the monument after his wid­ow had life use of the ne­ces­sary amount. Mrs. Cov­ert waived these rights and asked that the monu­ment be erec­ted im­me­di­ately. The in­scrip­tion reads:

Erec­ted in memory of my com­rades in arms in the war of the re­bel­lion, by Madis­on Cov­ert, a mem­ber of Co. C, 126th New York Volunteers.