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 When Thomas Hart Benton died, he did not
have much money, so he got a small, gray granite marker. It
looks very old and is about five feet tall. It was an
obelisk monument. This obelisk shapes comes from the ancient
Egyptians, and was covered with hieroglyphics telling about
a person's life. About one hundred years later, the state of
Missouri gave him a larger, red granite marker about ten
feet tall. This obelisk was in honor of his political
career. The older marker did not tell much about him. The
more recent marker tells about his place in Missouri history
as one of the first two senators.
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