Pittsburgh Cemeteries

Tag: Early Settlers

  • William Devore Tombstone, Peters Creek Baptist Church Cemetery

    William Devore tombstone

    A work of our Master of the Bold Modern Capitals, decorated with a weeping willow and the epitaph “Weep not for me.”

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  • Sarah Ann Devore Tombstone, Peters Creek Baptist Church Cemetery

    Sarah Ann Devore tombstone

    Sarah Ann Devore died at the age of only 40. Her tombstone is decorated with a cheery little coffin bearing the words, “From whence there is no return.”

    “From whence there is no return” in a coffin

    This is a new artisan for our collection, whom we shall name the Master of the Bold Modern Capitals for his distinctive adoption of fat lettering imitated from the “modern” types of the early nineteenth century, especially obvious in the very bold letters of the word “DIED.”

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  • Robert and Margaret McCullough Tombstones, Clinton Cemetery

    Robert McCullough

    [I]N MEMORY OF
    [R]OBERT McCULLOUGH,
    who departed t[his li]fe
    Jan 26th 18—
    aged 40 years.

    The whole front has flaked off this tombstone, but most of the inscription remains legible. The stone is obviously carved by the same hand that made the stone for Margaret nearby; we presume they were husband and wife who both died young, but the stones themselves do not indicate the relationship.

    Margaret McCullough

    IN MEMORY OFF
    MARGARET McCULLOUGH
    who departed this life
    April 11th 1836,
    in the 33d year of her
    age.

  • 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.