NYC #38: Lola Montez, Green-Wood Cemetery (8), Brooklyn

'BORN AT

GRANGE, COUNTY SLIGO

FEBRUARY 17, 1821.

KNOWN AS

LOLA MONTEZ,

COUNTESS OF LANDSFELD.'

 

And on the other side of the tombstone:

 

'MRS.

ELIZA GILBERT

DIED

Jan. 17, 1861

Æ. 42.'

 

Born Eliza Gilbert, she became the much more erotic Lola Montez, famous as a dancer, an actor, and a courtesan. Her lover King Ludwig I of Bavaria made her Countess of Landsfeld. She is variously said to have died of pneumonia, cholera, or syphilis.