When an order of nuns could no longer maintain the graves of two of the deceased in their care, they decided to rebury them elsewhere. But the decision wasn’t solely based on the bottom line of economics, but on the bottom line of love. They decided to bring the relatives home to the family plot.
"[Nathaniel] Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables, died in New Hampshire in 1864. His wife, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, moved to England with their three children and died there six years later. She and their daughter Una were buried at Kensal Green cemetery in London.
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"But when cemetery officials told the nuns that the grave site needed costly repairs, the order arranged to have remains reburied in Concord instead.
"On Monday, one modern casket containing the remains of mother and daughter was put on a horse-drawn 1860 wooden hearse and carried from a local funeral home through the town center to a church for the memorial service. About 40 family members and a group of nuns from the order followed the hearse in a procession."
Why were the nuns so concerned about the disposition of the Hawthorne family remains? They are the Hawthorne Dominicans, and their foundress was Nathaniel Hawthorne’s daughter, Catholic convert and saint-in-the-making Rose Hawthorne Lathrop.
Some might think Rose Hawthorne Lathrop’s conversion to Catholicism surprising, but I doubt her father, the great American literary artist, would have thought so.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. –Nathaniel Hawthorne
And if you are interested in seeing a picture of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s grave, you can check out http://www.findagrave.com
Here, I’ll save you the trouble …
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=459