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Simple Faith, Enduring Legacy: Remembering Sarah Lemon

One of the most beautiful sculptural memorials in Greenwood Cemetery is that of Sarah Ann Kirkpatrick Lemon, located in Section 1 of the old cemetery. Atop the grave monument for Sarah and her husband George Lemon is a life-size marble statue of a woman in a simple dress, seated on rough stones, resting her head in her right hand in tranquil repose, with her eyes closed as if napping. In her left hand is a wreath of flowers, the symbol of the soul’s immortality, eternal life, and the promise of renewal.

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