Ogden Daily Standard | 1903-05-09 | Page 11 | Apollo as a Headstone Section

AS A HEADSTONE in west point a cemetery for colored per tons in norfolk va Is a simple grate unmarked by inscription yet above all other graves in the cemetery it at once arrests the attention ot the passerby for in place ot the visual stone at the head Is a colossal bust of the apollo belvedere how happened such an incongruous decoration haa oft been questioned several years ago a young artist of ortola or tolk darlne occasion to dispose of effects ordered the destruction of a much soiled plaster cast 0 the apollo an old family servant vaa appointed executioner apollo wa placed in the uplifted axe about to descend when it was lud deuly arrested the old man cald with howo fit do most anything hot I 1 aint gwane let dat ere man gamme bad luck with leg compunction be alta the apollo in an ignoble ash bin whence la coarse 0 time along it waa carted away and to two rears after this event another colored of the timily n annual call volunteered the information that ere sir apollo who used to alt a studio now a headstone in de culled alme terr 1 and so he was and Is todar while ba majestic pose and lofta mien geem strangely undisturbed either by time storm or clr