Time is On Her Side

by Wild Thing

Title

Time is On Her Side

Artist

Wild Thing

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

It is no secret that you can find me haunting the local cemeteries for subject matter and this is no exception. This particular monument is one of my favorites. I felt to make her more dramatic, I needed to remove her background and replace it with just black. She is on a pedestal that stands approximately 10' tall. She is about 5-6' tall. At first I thought she looked weary, but after studying her, I felt she was more resigned to her fate of forever waiting. Hence the title, for time truly is on her side. You can find her in Woodlawn Cemetery, in Winona, Minnesota. It is one of the oldest cemeteries on record in Minnesota. Below is a little historical record on it.

Welcome to Woodlawn Cemetery:

A deed for forty acres of land, selling at a price of $630, was recorded September 13, 1862. On January 1, 1883, an additional forty acres were purchased. The Association now owns about 224 acres. As of June 9, 1883, 773 lots had been sold and 2,356 burials made. The association, who set aside twenty percent of the selling price of each lot for maintenance, had $3,500. in their account. The remains of Scott Clark had been buried some thirty years previous, with the first internment burial after the land was designated as a human burial ground being that of Benjamin Lowe in the summer of 1862. The largest public cemetery within the City of Winona, it has over 21,000 burials.

Woodlawn is a public cemetery and was officially founded in 1862 by E.D. Williams. It is managed by the Woodlawn Cemetery Association, a 501(c) 13 not for profit association comprised of cemetery land owners.

Woodlawn cemetery has a section called Potter's Field where indigent persons or unknown persons (such as 3 found in the river or men hitching a ride and then falling off trains and getting run over, etc.) were buried at the cost of the city. Winona was also famous for its "Red Light" district and often newborns or part thereof were found floating in the river after one of the "girls" gave birth. Most of the 1,000+ graves in this section are unmarked.

Many of the notable citizens of Winona are buried within this cemetery including the Watkins Family, the Lamberton Family and the Huff Family. The cemetery contains many beautiful and elaborate mausoleums, including one built into the hillside which is rumored to be haunted! It is also the final resting place of the only known Revolutionary War soldier buried in the state of Minnesota. Its many interesting gravestones include angels, a roman soldier, life-like children, weeping women, elaborate columns, bronze sculpture, and one shaped as an anchor for a couple "lost" on the North Sea.

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August 11th, 2015

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