Legend/history (as I heard it) of the Moriarity tomb in Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, LA:
Mr Moriarity was an Irish immigrant who came to America as a young person. He helped out in a store owned by Mary Farrell, who was over 20 years his senior. The two married and made "more money than they knew what to do with" from real estate investments.
When she died, he had the monument built in her honor using Vermont granite that had to be sent by rail (special temporary railroad was built to bring in the materials) and almost sank the New Orleans Basin Bridge.
There are four statues around the tomb which stand for faith, hope, charity, and memory. New Orleans legend has it that the fourth (memory) is really for Mrs Moriarity, so the tomb is known to locals as "Faith, Hope, Charity, and Mrs Moriarity."
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