Forest Hills Cemetery

This guide to a bronze memorial at Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston follows brothers Joseph and Martin Milmore, stonecutters who together carved a granite sphinx for Mount Auburn Cemetery before Martin's carving of Boston Common's Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument made him one of the city's sought-after sculptors. It traces his death at thirty-nine and the commission that brought in Daniel Chester French, later famed for the Lincoln Memorial, to mark the brothers' shared grave. Look for the tools worked into the bronze scene before you read the plaque.