Saturday, November 3, 2018

JANE GRIFFITH, Green-Wood Cemetery

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Likely the most poignant monument in Green-Wood is the one erected by Charles Griffith to his beloved wife Jane on Greenbough Avenue in 1858. It depicts a young man going off to work in the morning at the front door of a wisteria-covered townhouse. He leans on a partially-opened gate while his clearly adoring wife […]

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from Forgotten New York http://forgotten-ny.com/2018/11/jane-griffith-green-wood-cemetery/

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