Robert E. Launitz, creator of the memorial urn for A. J. Downing on the National Mall in Washington, D. C., sculpted the memorial for Major General George H. Thomas, which incorporates a white marble sarcophagus topped with a bald eagle.[1] William Henry Rinehart's final work, a life-size sculpture of Julia Taylor Paine, resides in Oakwood.[10] J. Massey Rhind, known for his statue of Crawford W. Long in the National Statuary Hall Collection,[23] is the artist behind the Robert Ross Monument.[10] The Ross Monument shows Ross defending a ballot box, honoring his martyrdom, which resulted from his active work against election corruption in Troy.[24] Joseph Fuller's grave is marked by an elaborately carved Celtic Cross—one of the first in the cemetery—and is based on another monument that Fuller saw while visiting Ireland.[4]