Mount Auburn Cemetery.


To Channing (left), to Phillips Brooks (Right).

To Channing (left), to Phillips Brooks (Right).

cated to the memory of her husband, Giovanni Angelo, Marquis Ossoli, who "gave up rank, station and home for the Roman Republic and for his wife and child"; and to that child, Angelo Eugene Philip Ossoli, who was born in Rieti, Italy, September 5, 1848. Father, mother and infant son all perished together by shipwreck in July, 1850, and the child was the only one of the three whose body was recovered for burial at the foot of this stone. What a long-ago tragedy of the deep it seems now, yet how many hearts were thrilled by it when it occurred!
      Lovers of the drama will find in Mount Auburn the graves of some of those whose interpretations of character upon the stage they have witnessed with most delight. On Anemone Path, which leads from Spruce Avenue eastward, just beyond Mound Avenue, is the grave of Edwin Booth. Set into the marble stone which marks the grave is a fine medallion portrait in bronze. Over this is the single word "Booth," and under it are the words:—

Edwin Booth
Born November 13th, 1833
Died June 7th, 1893

Below this is inscribed this comforting verse from the prophecy of Jeremiah, which conveys a hint at once of the sorrows which overshadowed the life of the great actor, and of the consolations which sustained him: "I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow." By the side of this stone is a vine-covered cross erected to the memory of Booth's wife, Mary, who died February 21, 1863.
      On Palm Avenue is a fine granite monolith over the grave of America's greatest tragedienne, Charlotte Cushman. At a corner of Jonquil Path and Crystal Avenue, a cross of polished granite, prone on a granite base, rests over the grave of 'William Warren, who contributed to the mirth of two generations of theatre-goers. Who that ever saw Warren in "The School for Scandal," or as "the member from Cranberry Centre," is likely to forget him? Warren died in 1888. Mrs. J. R. Vincent, who for so many years appeared with him on the stage of the Museum, and who died seven years earlier, is buried on Ailanthus Path. A simple marble tablet, with a scroll falling over it, bearing a cross at the top, marks her grave. The first

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