Here is our favorite flower-strewing mourner (see, for example, the Potts monument in the Mount Lebanon Cemetery) in the giant economy size—much larger than she usually is, rendered in granite rather than marble, and with her wrists intact, but recognizably the same character. Is she based on a famous original? Father Pitt would love to hear from someone who knows her story. The Heck family lost a small child in 1896, and that may be about the date of this monument.
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[…] common cemetery sculpture in Pittsburgh. This is very similar (though not quite identical) to the Heck monument in the Sewickley cemetery. The lily in our mourner’s hand is distinctive and, when her hands are […]