The Texas search site mentioned in my last message does not have just TX Hinds. For instance the entry below mentions an E. Clovis Hinds in Memphis TN. Regards, Nan [email protected] ==================== Found by using the search site at: THE HANDBOOK OF TEXAS ONLINE http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/index.html RODRÍGUEZ, DIONICIO (1891?-1955). Dionicio Rodríguez, artist, son of Catarino Rodríguez, was born in Toluca, capital of the state of México, in 1891 or 1893. He perfected a secret process in which he carved chemically treated reinforced concrete so that it looked like wood................................................................. During the 1930s Rodríguez worked for Arkansas developer Justin Matthews, sculpting pieces for three parks in Little Rock. In his most innovative work for Matthews, Rodríguez worked with an architect to design a site to look like an abandoned mill, in which everything but the stone walls of the mill were molded from cement. In the early 1940s he completed a dozen works based on literary and Biblical themes for E. Clovis Hinds in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. The most outstanding of these is a massive grotto, the inside of which is studded with crystals and decorated with ten sculpted and painted scenes from the life of Christ. Other examples of Rodríguez's work have been found in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Hot Springs, Arkansas; Suitland, Maryland; Ann Arbor, Michigan; New York City; and Clayton, New Mexico. His inclusion of such painstaking details as insect holes, peeling bark, and broken-off branches in his work, which he called el trabajo rústico, demonstrates a highly refined aesthetic as well as technical mastery of his medium