History & local legend
Laurel Hill Cemetery’s Mother and Twins monument depicts the wife and children of sculptor Henry Dmoghowski-Saunders. One child was stillborn in 1855; the other died in 1857, the same year as their mother. Saunders carved the family group as a memorial.
Michael McMahon connected the monument with a protective-apparition story set in the spring of 1985. In his telling, Amy Morgan was photographing cherry trees along the Schuylkill when she heard a woman crying. A figure crossed the view through her camera, but disappeared when she lowered it.
At that moment, Morgan noticed that her five-year-old son had wandered dangerously near the water. She understood the crying as a warning that drew her attention back to him.
