An angel in high relief stands before a rustic boulder and drops lily flowers on the Hipples’ graves. The earliest burial in this plot seems to be Marion F. Hipple, who died in 1899, and that is a good guess at the date of this angel.
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Hipple Angel, Homewood Cemetery
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Walter Monument, St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery (Spring Hill)
A set of rustic boulders, with a bronze relief depicting a weeping angel (Doctor Who fans will be pleased) overcome in the middle of his harp-playing. Unambiguously male angels are actually rare in monuments around here; and although this was probably a monument-dealer’s stock monument, the bronze relief is a fine piece of work.
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James B. Hogg Monument, Allegheny Cemetery
James B. Hogg died in the sinking of the SS Arctic in 1854. The marble relief on his monument is badly eroded, but enough remains to tell the awful story of the last moments of the Arctic.
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Teyssier Monument, Melrose Cemetery
A very odd monument; on a rustic slab, botanical reliefs (lilies, ferns, ivy) surround what looks like a televisor from the old Flash Gordon serials.
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Munhall Monument, Allegheny Cemetery
An exceptionally beautiful monument obscured by another John Munhall’s ostentatious Gothic tomb right in front of it. The angel brings a palm and wreath to the Munhalls’ Romanesque grotto carved out of a rustic boulder. This John Munhall is the man for whom the borough of Munhall is named.
