3. Burial Plots of Ransom R. and Philander Cable
3. The next two burial plots are those of Ransom R. and Philander Cable. R.R. Cable was president of the Rock Island - Peoria Railroad, while his uncle, Philander Cable, was president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. He donated to the city of Rock Island the waterworks pumping station at the foot of 24th Street. Philander’s son, Ben Cable, was Congressman from this district for many years, after which he lived abroad for a time. In 1891, while in France, he purchased a large bronze monument. The monument, designed and sculpted by Paul De Vigne, was cast in Brussels. The completed work, which stands in the family plot, features a grief-stricken woman standing beside it, with a large bronze sarcophagus supported above.
