spring grove cemetery uncovered

Spring Grove Cemetery Uncovered…It’s many beautiful sculptures, flowers and stories

told in pictures

Beautiful Flowers

Picturesque Landscapes

Amazing Memorial Monuments

The Fleischman Memorial

representing the Greek

Parthenon

General William Lytle’s

Powerful Memorial with the

symbolic saddened eagle

Monuments Continued…

Jacob Hoffner Monument

The Hoffner monument is

situated on a promontory in

section 57, and was erected in

1853 by Jacob Hoffner, to the

memory of his wife and children.

This monument represents a

gothic shrine, and was executed

in Italian marble by Charles Rule,

of this city, from a design of the

late John B. Earnshaw. The

beautiful statue which adorns this

elegant structure is from Fantocci,

of Florence, Italy.

Digging deeper into the Jacob Hoffner Monument

J.H. Memorial Continued…

Grieving

woman

spreading

flowers over

graves of

those who

have passed

away

J.H. Memorial Continued…Mourning, yet

courageous lions

guarding the steps

leading up to the

Hoffner Memorial

J.H. Memorial

Symbolism of the J.H. Memorial

Symbolism Continued…

What does this tell us about…