Cedar Hill Cemetery’s impressive monuments commemorate the lives of those buried here and in particular the markers located in the historic sections are creative expressions of Victorian funerary art.
Welles Monument
The Welles Monument features a bronze figure in flowing gown and holding a small wreath signifying memory. The ...
Stedman Memorial
The Stedman Memorial is an elaborately carved sarcophagus of military design by John M. Moffitt. An English-born sculptor, ...
Morgan Monument
Made of Nova Scotia granite, the Morgan Monument is said to represent John Pierpont Morgan’s vision of the ...
Howard Pyramid
Fashionable throughout the 19th-century and into the 1920s, the Egyptian Revival style incorporated motifs and imagery of ancient ...
Jewell Monument
The Hartford Courant (1874) described the Jewell Monument as an “exquisite Corinthian column of granite surmounted by a ...
Daniel Russell Monument
The Daniel Russell Monument is the only memorial at Cedar Hill featuring a life-size likeness of an actual ...
Colt Monument
Shortly after Cedar Hill Cemetery was established, Elizabeth Colt, widow of inventor and gun manufacturer Samuel Colt, commissioned ...
Wells Monument
Charles T. Wells erected this monument in honor of his father, Horace Wells, in 1909. Wells, a Hartford ...
Keney Monument
Celebrated Hartford architect George Keller designed this Gothic-style monument for Walter and Henry Keney. Noted for its vertical ...
Boardman Monument
The Boardman Monument, made of Westerly granite, is the work of New England Granite Works. Described in the ...
Brownell Monument
New York millionaire Gordon Burnham commissioned this monument in honor of his father-in-law, Bishop Thomas Church Brownell, founder ...
Beach Monument
The Gothic monument, designed by noted architect Richard Upjohn, is in the style of a ciborium or freestanding ...
Heublein Monument
The monument is an exedra or curved bench. In ancient Greece, exedras were often used in public squares ...
Samuel Coit Monument
The hollow metal monument that graces the lot of Samuel Coit is commonly called a zinkie. Although marketed ...
Monument Fund
The Foundation raises funds to preserve Cedar Hill Cemetery’s historic memorials. To learn more about our preservation activities visit our Monument Fund page.