She hired the architect who had designed St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan to design a Gothic granite tombstone. But she wanted to make sure Lion's remains were really there, so when the workers were putting the tombstone in place she asked them to dig deeper. He was wearing a steel corset, a steel helmet, with a beautiful sword hitched to his belt. And she discovered he had a gray beard streaked with red. Lion Gardiner's tombstone sits near the center of the cemetery.
Historians say there is no tombstone like it anywhere in America.