Saint Mary's Cemetery

1 According to local lore, Michael Higgins, the freethinking father of Margaret Sanger, sculpted stone grave monuments on religious themes for this cemetery. This is the front entrance gate, on Park Avenue. 2 Typical arrangement of gravestones at Saint Mary's Cemetery.

According to local lore, Michael Higgins, the freethinking father of Margaret Sanger, sculpted stone grave monuments on religious themes for this cemetery. This is the front entrance gate, on Park Avenue.

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Margaret Sanger's father, Michael Higgins, is believed to have sculpted stone grave monuments for this cemetery in exchange for a rental of a house on the river flats, the location of Margaret Sanger's birthplace. Though Higgins was a freethinker he supposedly sculpted numerous works on religious themes, including likenesses of saints and angels.