Angel of Grief

Angel of Grief is an 1894 sculpture by William Wetmore Story which serves as the grave stone of the artist and his wife at the Protestant Cemetery, Rome.^[1][2] The term is now used to describe multiple grave stones throughout the world erected in the style of the Story stone.

Replicas

Canada

• British Columbia

• North Vancouver Cemetery Vancouver. This replica is visible at the end of the 2010 movie Charlie St. Cloud.

• Quebec

• Remillard family monument, Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery in Mt. Royal Park, Montreal^[3]

Costa Rica

• Cementerio General, San José, Costa Rica^[4]

Cuba

• Cementerio Santa Ifigenia, (Santiago de Cuba)Tumba de Heberto Soler Perez (1910-1925)

Luxembourg

• Bettendorf-Hausse monument, Notre-Dame Cemetery, Limpertsberg^[5][6]

United States

• Arkansas

• Steen monument, Oakland Cemetery, Little Rock^[7]

• California

• Chapel of the Chimes, Hayward
• Dr. Mary S. Ertl cenotaph (she is interred at Forest Lawn in Glendale), Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood^[8]
• Henry Lathrop monument, Stanford Arboretum, Stanford University. Brother to Jane Stanford, Stanford University co-founder. The original replica was built in 1901, but was severely damaged in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, leading to its replacement in 1908. After years of neglect, the 1908 replacement was fully restored in 2001.^{[9][10][11][12]}
• Jennie Roosevelt Pool monument, Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma. Cousin of Theodore Roosevelt.^[13]
• Simpson family monument, Chico Cemetery, Chico^[14]

• Kentucky

• Actor Victor Mature's family monument, St. Michael Cemetery, Louisville^[15]

• Louisiana

• Philanthropist Chapman H. Hyams' family tomb, Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans^[16]

• Maryland

• Hayen family monument, Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore^[17]

• Massachusetts

• Maria Hooper monument, Hingham Cemetery, Hingham^[18]

• Mississippi

• McMillan family monument, Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery, Aberdeen^[19]
• Teasdale family monument, Friendship Cemetery, Columbus^[20]

• Missouri

• Hyland-Carney family monument, Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis^[21]
• Trorlicht family monument, Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis^[22]

• New Jersey

• Marion Groze Monument, Cedar Hill Cemetery, Florence^[23]

• New York

• Cassard family monument, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn^[24]
• O'Donohue monument, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn^[25][26]
• DiCesare family monument, Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester^[27]

• Pennsylvania

• Blair Ciallela monument, Longwood Cemetery, Kennett Square^[28]
• Frey monument, Prospect Hill Cemetery, York^[29][30]

• Rhode Island

• Desrochers monument, Precious Blood Cemetery, Woonsocket^[31]

• Texas,^[32][33]

• Blakeney monument, Grove Hill Cemetery, Dallas^[34]
• Davila monument, Holy Cross Cemetery, Waco^[35]
• Rosa Lee Eissler monument, Prairie Lea Cemetery, Brenham^[36]
• Pastore family monument, Calvary Cemetery, Denison^[37][38]
• William Youree monument, Scottsville-Youree Cemetery, Scottsville. Son of Shreveport banker Peter Youree.^[39]
• Houston
  • Gloria L. Cheng monument, Glenwood Cemetery, Houston^[40][41]
  • Hill family monument, Glenwood Cemetery, Houston^[42]
  • Melcher monument, Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery, Houston^[43]
  • Gutierrez monument (pre-need?), Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery, Houston^[44]

• Virginia

• Presbyterian Cemetery. Lynchburg, Virginia^[45]
• Kelly Lee Loose Reynolds Bustamante monument. Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia^[46]

Images

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  Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester, New York

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  A loose interpretation in York, Pennsylvania

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  Hyams Monument, Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans

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  Teasdale Monument, Columbus, Mississippi.

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  Hooper Memorial (1912), Old Ship Church, Hingham, Massachusetts

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  Hill Monument,
  Glenwood Cemetery (Houston, Texas)

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  Lathrop Memorial,
  Stanford University,
  Palo Alto, California

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  Pool Monument,
  Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, California

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  Eissler Monument, Prairie Lea Cemetery, Brenham, Texas. This variation has long flowing hair.

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  Gloria Cheng Monument, Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, TX

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Reproductions in popular culture

• Album Covers

• The Edges of Twilight by The Tea Party (1995)
• Embossed Dream in Four Acts by Odes of Ecstasy (1998)
• Evanescence EP by Evanescence (1998)
• Once by Nightwish (2004)
• Letanías: Capítulo III by Anabantha (2006)

• Film

• Flight from Death (2003) (cover art)
• The Woman in Black (2012 film)

In the last episode,"Eden", of the TV series, "The Killing".(2014)

References

• Bliss, Harry A., Memorial Art, Ancient and Modern, Harry A Bliss, Monument Photographer, Buffalo N.Y., 1912 p176
• Brown, John Gary, Soul in the Stone: Cemetery Art From America's Heartland, University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, 1994
• Culbertson Randall, Permanent Californians: An Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of California, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, Chelsea Vermont, 1989
• Christovich, Huber, McDowell, photographs by Betsy Swanson, New Orleans Architecture, Volume lll: the Cemeteries, Pelican Publishing Co., Gretna, 1997
• Gillon, Edmond V., Victorian Cemetery Art, Dover Publications Inc., New York, 1972
• Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, America's Cemetery Sculpture, unpublished manuscript
• Richman, Jeff, author of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery New York’s Buried Treasure, phone interview with E. E. Kvaran, September 2006

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