Here again is our favorite flower-strewing mourner, the most 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 present, instantly identifies her.
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.
This grave marker, almost certainly Polish, once had space for a name, perhaps on a metal plate. It appears to be cast from concrete, and it is not holding up well.
An angel seems to be gazing in wonder at a cross, which would be theologically correct and profound. She is probably a dealer’s stock model, but she is a good one, and well preserved.
Herr Fromm (the name is illegible on his marble headstone) died in 1894, so that is probably about the date of this monument.
Note the stock stones with “Father” and “Mother,” but inscriptions in German.
A very tall and quite austere marble monument sitting on a chunk of sandstone sitting on a chunk of something else. Father Pitt was not able to find a dated Walde headstone nearby of the right era, but he would guess this monument dates from the 1880s.
