By
hauntedsouth
| On Thursday, January 04, 2018
Attalla County, Mississippi
Laura Kelly Grave
Kosciusko City Cemetery
This tombstone with the statue is that of Laura V. Mitchell Kelly. She was born in 1852 and died in 1890 at 38 years of age. Her husband, C. Clay Kelly, a prominent Kosciusko business man, ordered a statue to be made in her likeness (dressed in her wedding gown) from a sculptor in Italy. The Kelly's residence located at 309 E. Jefferson Street in Kosciusko was under construction at the time of her death, and it is said that Mr. C. C. Kelly instructed the builder to add a third story to the home so that he would be able to look out the window of the third-floor cupola and see his wife's monument.
