John Arbuckle was born in Scotland and died here in 1861. So much we can read, but the soft stone of his monument is eroding, and the inscription is hard to make out.
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John Arbuckle Monument, Union Dale Cemetery
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Kelley Monument, Union Dale Cemetery
A particularly fine mourner, black with sooty Pittsburgh history, strewing flowers over the grave.
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Ingles Monument, Union Dale Cemetery
James Ingles, born in Scotland, died here in 1863. This is a fine example of Civil-War-era Gothic style.
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McIntosh Monument, Union Dale Cemetery
This is a standard urn-on-the-top monument, and Father Pitt mentions it mostly because it includes a name that, as far as he can tell, is entirely unique: “Elspacious,” Mr. McIntosh’s son, who died at the age of 27 or 28 in some terrible accident (“burned to death at Oil City,” says the History of Allegheny County, which has a short biography of Laughlan McIntosh). Google finds no other men named Elspacious on the entire World-Wide Web.
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Flowers Monument, Union Dale Cemetery
The inscriptions are worn and hard to read, but this monument seems to date from the 1860s; the earliest legible death date is 1863.
