This statue of a wreath-bearing mourner looks more contemplative as she weathers into abstraction.
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Statue on the Sunshine Mausoleum, South Side Cemetery
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Nilles Angel, South Side Cemetery
A weathered and damaged angel that is all the more picturesque for the damage. The right hand was probably strewing flowers when the statue was intact.
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Morris Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
This small Doric mausoleum bears a fine life-size sculpture with an ungrammatical inscription that always irritates old Pa Pitt every time he sees it.
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Monument for a Child, Union Dale Cemetery
The monument is eroding and the inscription has become illegible, as is the common fate of expensive marble monuments from the middle 1800s. We must admit, though, that the effect of the decay is very picturesque.
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Schreiner Mausoleum, Union Dale Cemetery
A huge and opulent Ionic mausoleum crowned by a cupola on which stands a figure of Hope shaking her fist at heaven. At least that is how it has always looked to old Pa Pitt. The Schreiners must have had quite a lot of money, but they have left few other obvious historical traces of themselves.
