Frank E. Grove. Born November 17, 1841 in Columbia, died December 10, 1884 in Columbia. Served in Company A, 3rd PA Heavy Artillery during the Civil War. Captured and taken to Andersonville Prison. Son of Samuel Grove and Maria Eby Grove. Buried at Mt. Bethel Cemetery in Columbia.
Copper sculpting/modeling tool hand fashioned to create a flattened, spoon-like handle leading to a rounded shank ending in another flattened end bent at the tip to create a short 1/2" extension bent to nearly a right angle for working in clay or plaster. End is squared off. Crude but effective tool for sculpting bears marks of hammering, especially underside of flattened handle. Used by Lloyd Mifflin. Tool presumed to have been fashioned by Lloyd Mifflin himself from a length of copper. Provenance: Mifflin to the Minnich sisters to the groundskeeper at Norwood to donors.
