Woodlands Cemetery – Συγγράμματα

Francis Martin Drexel

Drexel has a handsome neoclassical pile in The Woodlands.

A poem from William Leggett, the editor and abolitionist, provides verses for the Shivers monument.

“Lost: Pet dog. One eye, one ear, three legs. Answers to the name ‘Lucky.'”

I could not but think of this old joke when I came across the monument of Cary Howard in Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, today.

Emma Hinton’s parents gave her a grave in which to plant flowers. Yet they also adapted this common type specifically to the tender age of her death.