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:
Tags: Angels, cemetery angels, child tombstone, Green-Wood Cemetery, tombstones
Ephemeral New York 
June 27, 2011 at 3:50 am |
[…] Green-Wood Cemetery at the other end of Brooklyn has plenty of haunting angel figures too. […]
November 27, 2011 at 5:26 am |
The ODonohue angel is stunning!
December 21, 2012 at 2:03 am |
[…] gentle Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx doesn’t have the recognition of Green-Wood Cemetery or The Evergreens, both in […]
September 3, 2017 at 6:58 pm |
The O’Donohue’s were a 3rd generation merchant banking family. Buried here are John and his wife Adaline and John’s brother Charles and his wife Olive.
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=o'donohue&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=36&GScnty=2001&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=58814543&df=all&
https://books.google.com/books?id=5exHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA546&lpg=PA546&dq=john+bachus+o'donohue+brooklyn+ny&source=bl&ots=uA-qHmrQVe&sig=lstOcoXJYtLJ89S0L7L1r6ldFLI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjw3pWi1InWAhWB2iYKHQmEAFgQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=john%20bachus%20o'donohue%20brooklyn%20ny&f=false