Wolf's Angel

Wolf's Angel

Wolf's Angel

Wolf's Angel

US 64 Hwy. (Oakdale Cemetery)
Hendersonville, NC  28792

 

Thomas Wolfe's father, William Oliver Wolfe, ordered an angel statue from New York and it was used for years as a porch advertisement at the family monument shop on Patton Avenue.  W. O. Wolfe sold the statue to the Johnson family in Hendersonville, North Carolina in 1906. The angel statue is referenced in Thomas Wolfe's first novel, "Look Homeward, Angel". The statue is an angel carved from Italian marble and is located in the Oakdale Cemetery and marks the Johnson family plot. The statue is protected by a wrought iron fence and there is a historical marker on highway 64.