Pittsburgh Cemeteries

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  • John and Margaret Smith Tombstones, Clinton Cemetery

    John Smith tombstone

    JOHN SMITH
    Died May 17, 1851
    Aged 69 Years.

    John Smith was a veteran of the War of 1812; his tombstone is in a simple version of what old Pa Pitt calls the Poster Style, because it is very similar to printed posters of the same era.

    Bronze marker

    The bronze marker tells us that Private Smith served a little less than four months and was discharged before the war was over. Perhaps he was injured, but if so he got over it, married, and lived another 37 years after his discharge. His wife is buried beside him:

    Margaret Smith

    MARGARET
    Wife of
    JOHN SMITH
    Died July 15, 183?
    Aged — Years.

    The date of death is not quite legible. The year appears to be in the 1830s, though the tombstone is in the style of the 1850s and matches John’s. If the stone was put up years after Margaret’s death, then the age may have been left blank out of uncertainty and never filled in.


  • Alexander Bell Tombstone, Clinton Cemetery

    Erected in Memory of Alexander Bell

    ERECTED
    In Memory of
    Alexander Bell
    Who Departed this Life
    January 1834 in the
    82nd year of his
    age

    This stone is a substantial work of folk art, and it is interesting to speculate how far that art might have gone if it had not been snuffed out by the arrival of industrial monument companies.

    Alexander Bell

  • Conrod Cline Tombstone, Clinton Cemetery

    Sacred to the memory of Conrod Cline, 1837

    SACRED
    to the memory of
    CONROD CLINE,
    who died August 8th 1837,
    in the 28th year of his age.

    Although the rest of the stone is damaged, the quotation is easily recognized as Revelation 14:13:

    Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.


  • G. Aten Tombstone, Clinton Cemetery

    G. Aten, 1818

    It looks as though the family of G. Aten could not afford to have a tombstone made by a local craftsman. But this improvised marker has lasted better than most of the professionally made stones in the cemetery, and now that it has passed the two-century mark we may pronounce it an unqualified success.


  • Jane Eaton Monument, Clinton Cemetery

    Jane Eaton monument

    A simple and inexpensive zinc monument that has lasted much better than many of the more expensive stone monuments around it.

    JANE
    EATON
    BORN
    JULY 4,1832,
    DIED
    MAY 2, 1914

    This was one of the last generation of zinc monuments: in three years, production would end as all the zinc was diverted to the war effort, and the industry never resumed after the First World War, although interchangeable zinc plates continued to be available for new inscriptions for some years afterward.

    This monument has a zinc footstone to go with it.

    Footstone inscribed “Mother”

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