Hey Everyone! This is just a brief powerpoint that includes some of the pictures I have taken the past few weeks along with a look into the monument I chose to research! Hope you enjoy it!

1. Spring Grove Cemetery Uncovered…It’s many beautiful sculptures, flowers and stories told in pictures

2. Beautiful Flowers

3. Picturesque Landscapes

4. Amazing Memorial Monuments General William Lytle’s Powerful Memorial with the symbolic saddened eagle The Fleischman Memorial representing the Greek Parthenon

5. Monuments Continued… Guardian Angels

6. Jacob Hoffner Monument The Hoffner monument is situated on a promontory in section 57, and was erected in 1853 by Jacob Hoffner, to the memory of his wife and children. This monument represents a gothic shrine, and was executed in Italian marble by Charles Rule, of this city, from a design of the late John B. Earnshaw. The beautiful statue which adorns this elegant structure is from Fantocci, of Florence, Italy.

7. Digging deeper into the Jacob Hoffner Monument The family monument of Jacob Hoffner, of which a representation is given in our frontispiece, copied from a photograph, is the most attractive to visitors, generally, of any one in the Cemetery. It consists of a Gothic shrine, in which is the statue of a graceful female scattering flowers upon the graves of the dead, all of white marble.

8. J.H. Memorial Continued… Grieving woman spreading flowers over graves of those who have passed away

9. J.H. Memorial Continued… Mourning, yet courageous lions guarding the steps leading up to the Hoffner Memorial Replica Lions from Florence Italy

10. J.H. Memorial This monument was erected by Jacob Hoffner to the memory of his wife Elizabeth and their children.

11. Symbolism of the J.H. Memorial

12. Symbolism Continued…

13. What does this tell us about… Jacob Hoffner

14. The End