Late-afternoon sunshine on the Sunshine mausoleum and its contemplative mourner. We have more pictures of the Sunshine mausoleum here, here, and here.
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Sunshine Mausoleum, South Side Cemetery
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Coffin and Adams Obelisks, South Side Cemetery
You are qualified to be a mortician if you can sit down with a client named Coffin and make no remark whatsoever on the name.
The Adams obelisk is one of the few monuments signed by the makers, Campbell & Horigan.
The Adams family plot is still surrounded by its circular stone fence. Groundskeepers hate these stone fences, but the South Side Cemetery has been less aggressive about removing them than most other cemeteries.
We have more pictures of the Coffin and Adams obelisks.
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Schwarm Monuments, South Side Cemetery
Two monuments in the high Victorian romantic style, both decorated with passionflowers. Above, Charles and Sarah Irwin Schwarm (Charles’ death date was never filled in; perhaps he remarried and was buried elsewhere); below, Jacob and Sophia Schuler Schwarm.
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Armstrong Monument, South Side Cemetery
A moderately Art Deco interpretation of Gothic. In his brief visit, Father Pitt was not able to find any dated Armstrong headstones nearby, but the style would probably date this monument to the 1920s or 1930s.
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Nickel Family Plot, South Side Cemetery
We also have some older pictures of the Nickel plot.
A family plot of matching graves that is missing one important tenant, or at least the inscription for him.
Lina B. Nickel, who died in 1916 at the age of 29 or 30, is buried here under an inscription identifying her as “MY WIFE.” But the matching headstone is blank, suggesting that Mr. Nickel (whose name was almost certainly William; see below) is not buried here. A husband in mourning might think that of course he would never marry again and would be buried next to his late wife when he died, but a year or two or five go by, and he begins to take a more realistic view of the rest of his life. Or it is quite possible that the whole matching set was ordered when the two sons died in 1912.
A standard flower-dropping mourner. The wrists are always a weak point in this design.
Two young sons, William Jr. and John, died in 1912, very probably of the same childhood disease. From the name William Jr. we can deduce the father’s name.
This angel might also have been dropping flowers, as we can guess from its downward gaze and the eroded bouquet.
