Brooklyn’s sad cemetery angels

From Green-Wood Cemetery. Someone really grieved the loss of this O’Donohue person, who was probably a soldier:

“Our Boy.” Another beautiful angel carving, but there’s pretty much nothing sadder than a gravestone for a two-year-old child:

This entry was posted on March 14, 2009 at 6:16 am and is filed under Brooklyn, Cemeteries, Music, art, theater. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

The sad cemetery angels of Brooklyn « Ephemeral New York Says:
June 27, 2011 at 3:50 am | Reply
[...] Green-Wood Cemetery at the other end of Brooklyn has plenty of haunting angel figures too. [...]
Green daisy Says:
November 27, 2011 at 5:26 am | Reply
The ODonohue angel is stunning!
Angels and others in mourning at a Bronx cemetery « Ephemeral New York Says:
December 21, 2012 at 2:03 am | Reply
[...] gentle Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx doesn’t have the recognition of Green-Wood Cemetery or The Evergreens, both in [...]

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