Hope holds her ever-present anchor and points upward. The statue is only fairly good, but the Gothic base is really splendid, wealthy in well-harmonized detail.
The Blendingers had five children who died before their parents, the oldest one at ten or eleven.
A fairly lavish monument for a German hilltop cemetery. The style could be described as Victorian Corinthian. Christian Zies died in 1874, and that may be about the date of this monument; but it could also be a bit later.
Satanists (which is to say drunken giggling teenagers) have vandalized this and a few other monuments in the cemetery, but the stone will long outlast their paint, which is wearing off.
Industrialist and real-estate baron Henry W. Oliver (1840-1904) is buried in a very restrained classical mausoleum, saved from plainness by a series of elegant setbacks in the front. He lived a Horatio Alger story, starting as a telegraph messenger boy at the age of 13, and ending up with a street downtown named after him.
Mr. John Weakly Chalfant died in 1898, but in 1930 his heirs took it into their heads to have the Ecclesiastical Department of Tiffany Studios design this very elegant classical structure, in which he was reinterred. The whole design is clearly meant to show off a Tiffany stained-glass window, but the window was stolen more than thirty years ago.
An exceptionally beautiful barefoot mourner decorates this fine German monument. The inscriptions are damaged, but enough remains to give a probable date of 1874 and the names of the husband and wife: Heinrich Flügel and Anna Maria Engels Flügel.
Would-be Satanists have vandalized some of the monuments in this cemetery, but the paint wears off soon enough.
