With the beginning of the “Rural Cemetery” Movement in the nineteenth-century, the cemetery became a cultural institution in the United States; monuments and iconography changed from gruesome reminders of death to images that inspired civic pride and spiritual contemplation. With the expansion of cities in the twentieth-century, these cemeteries are now in urban areas, and they are invaluable for the art and history they contain. This paper reports the treatment of the Tacie Hannah Fargo Monument in Forest Lawn Cemetery in the context of the Buffalo cemetery’s cultural importance. The fabrication techniques of the marble sculpture, the silver-plated brass and glass case and the sandstone base of the are covered in conjunction with the methods of analysis with which they were determined. The condition before treatment and possible causes of the deterioration are also explored. Discussion of treatment includes both the steps taken and the decision-making process, with an emphasis on decisions that related to the object’s context as an outdoor monument within a cemetery. The paper concludes with a reiteration of the importance of the aesthetic and historical aspects of nineteenth-century cemeteries and the need to preserve them for the future.