This monument marks the final resting place of Frances Pearce Stone (1835-1854) and her infant daughter of the same name (1853-1854). Frances married at age 17 and had her little girl when she was just 18. Little Frances was only 8 months old when her mother died, and died just 2 months later. Although there are no records on the causes of their death, some historians believe it was tuberculosis.
The pair were originally buried in Chicago’s City Cemetery (now Lincoln Park) and her husband, Horatio Stone, commissioned the sculpture from Chauncey Bradley Ives from Rome where it was completed in 1856 then shipped to Chicago where it was placed in City Cemetery. In the 1850s Chicago closed that Cemetery and began moving burials. Stone made arrangements to move the burial and sculpture to Rosehill in 1861 where it was covered with glass to protect it from the elements.
