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-New York, National Register of Historic Places, Save Outdoor Sculpture

Charlotte Canda tomb at Green-wood Cemetery-Brooklyn, New York

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Charlotte Canda (February 3, 1828-February 3, 1845) died on her 17th birthday in a carriage ride on the way home from her birthday. She is memorialized in an elaborate tomb at Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

Robert Launitz and John Franzee made this monument to reflect her life. The monument cost $45,000 to create. It is 17 feet and 17 feet wide. While it is tough to capture all of the details in her marker, many represent her life. She owned parrots and could speak five languages, which are illustrated on the monument.

Side view
One of the angels that guards her plot

Below are public domain stereograph images. Courtesy the New York Public Library.

-Georgia, Cemeteries, Save Outdoor Sculpture

Sheppard Monument-Elberton, Georgia

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Elbert County

Designed by Richard Cecchini, the Sheppard monument represents Christ at Gethsemane. It’s listed on the Smithsonian’s Save Outdoor Sculpture database.

-Georgia, Cemeteries, National Register of Historic Places, Save Outdoor Sculpture

Williamson Mausoleum-Eastman, Georgia

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Dodge County

Orphans Cemetery is located near Eastman in Dodge County, Georgia. It is a small, well-maintained cemetery that features the beautiful Williamson Mausoleum.

Albert Genavie Williamson and his five younger, orphaned brothers moved to Eastman around 1873. Williamson was an entrepreneur who donated the land for the Orphans Christian Church and cemetery.

According to the National Register of Historic Places nomination, A. G. Williamson had this monument built out by the Cordele Consolidated Marble Company after meeting a monument salesman. Made out of of Carrara marble, it was sculpted from a family photograph. It features Mr. Williamson, his wife Martha, and his nephew, Jay Gould Williamson. Interestingly, Jay is buried on St. Simon’s in the Christ Church graveyard.

Outside of the artistic merit of the monument, it’s apparently unusual to find a funerary monument of three people together like this one.

It was put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.