Category:Bliss Memorial

The Art of the Cemetery: Bliss Memorial, Woodlawn Cemetery
Excerpt: A multitude of popular accounts refer to this monument as the “Annie Bliss Titanic Memorial,” a dedication to those lost in the Titanic disaster. While the Bliss Monument embraces the maritime and was built just one year after the ill-fated voyage, there are no texts that directly link this memorial to the most famous shipwreck of all time. We do not have sufficient evidence in the historical record to accept the supposition that the Bliss Monument is dedicated to the casualties of the Titanic disaster. It may be that its location directly across the Straus family mausoleum (co-owner of Macy’s department store in New York City Isidor and his wife Ida refused to take a seat on a Titanic lifeboat) combined with the fact that Woodlawn contains 12 people associated with the ship, more than any other cemetery in the U.S., has something to do with the spread of this unsubstantiated claim.

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