Margaret Caroline “Little Margaret” Pitkin
November 18, 1892 – December 4, 1899
The monument in the Green Mount Cemetery in Montpelier, Vermont, commissioned by Margaret’s parents, Carroll Perley and Mary A. Devine Pitkin, was to be an exact replica of a photograph that her parents cherished. Harry J. Bertoli, a Barre, Vermont, statuary artist and sculptor, was enlisted for the daunting task of creating the granite look-a-like.
According to a brochure published by the cemetery, “Local legend has it that the Pitkin family initially refused to pay for the statue because a button was missing on one of her boots.” At closer inspection of the photograph, the Pitkins realized that indeed, the left shoe that Margaret was wearing in the photograph was missing the button and they immediately paid the debt.
They asked for an exact replica, and that is what Bertoli created.
Gravely Speaking 
Happy to see this – I live in Montpelier and frequent this cemetery. Thanks for posting!
I was thinking that it’s normal for sculptors to have their figures supported by a stone stump or some such thing so as to give greater mechanical strength to the ensemble. And there is the symbolism in the cut log lying sideways on top of a life cut short. But then I noticed that the wood forms the Greek letter Pi, not accidentally, I think, but to signify Pitkin. The attentiveness to the clothes reminds me of the statue of Brevett Glaize in Mt. Hebron Cemetery in Winchester, VA.
You are so smart to notice the “Pi” symbol which went right by me–brilliant observation.