An upward-pointing angel bears a palm frond, symbol of victory. The angel confidently points the direction in which the victorious Fords are headed.
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Ford Monument, Homewood Cemetery
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Bronze Angels on the James Oliver Monument, Allegheny Cemetery
The monument to steel baron James B. Oliver and his family is one of the largest heaps of bronze in the Allegheny Cemetery. Four beautiful angels stand guard at the corners.
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Boyle Monument, Allegheny Cemetery
An angel and a cross, similar in conception to the Porter monument, but very different in execution.
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Porter Angel, Allegheny Cemetery
The original pictures in this article disappeared with the server that hosted them. This picture was taken in October of 2022. More pictures are at our more recent article on the Porter monument. 
This striking angel is the work of Brenda Putnam, but the cemetery’s site is vague and confusing on dates. It says that the bronze angel was cast “after 1910” as a replica of an original granite sculpture. The earliest dated Putnam work listed in her sparse Wikipedia article is from 1917. Brenda Putnam would have been twenty years old in 1910; she would thus have been a teenager when the granite version was done, if the date “1910” means anything at all. Henry Kirke Porter, identified as “the best-known Porter here” by the cemetery site, died in 1921, and perhaps that gives us a better guess at the date of the sculpture.
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Joseph Horne Monument, Allegheny Cemetery
Joseph Horne, the department-store baron, certainly had enough money for a mausoleum, but chose to be remembered by this beautiful monument instead. A mourning woman lays a wreath on the grave; she is consoled by an angel who points the way Mr. Horne is presumed to have headed. Just to make the message clear, the angel also bears a palm, emblematic of victory.
