Article: Indiana cemetery is a lively place

INDIANAPOLIS -- Seven women stand reverently in front of the grave marker of Albertina Allen Forrest. The women do not know her -- she died in 1904 -- but they are learning a bit about her as part of an art and architecture tour at Crown Hill Cemetery.

Tour guide Tom Davis reads a passage from an Alfred Lloyd Tennyson poem that has faded from the face of Forrest's sprawling monument. The statue of a weeping female -- a "perpetual mourner," Davis said - - kneels at the grave of the woman who died in her early 30s.

Forrest is one of more than 190,000 people buried in the cemetery. Among them are Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger, and President Benjamin Harrison, whose grave is one of ...

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