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Article: Indiana cemetery is a lively place
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- October 9, 2005
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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 ...