Pittsburgh Cemeteries

Tag: Sculpture

  • McClintock Monument, Allegheny Cemetery

    This monument is not listed on the cemetery’s site, but it is probably a memorial to Jonas McClintock, a Pittsburgh mayor who died in 1879.

  • Sallie Negley McMasters Monument, Allegheny Cemetery

    A young bride who perhaps married beneath her, but then most families were beneath the Negleys. She was not yet twenty-three years old when she died in 1874. This monument in the Victorian Romantic style was executed in soft stone that has eroded considerably, which gives it a certain antique charm.

    Section: 19
    Lot: 23

  • Thomas S. Clarke Monument, Allegheny Cemetery

    Clarke, according to the cemetery site, was a riverboat and railroad operator. The monument was erected in 1886.

    Section: 16
    Lot: 120

  • Stella D. Horner Ihmsen Monument, Allegheny Cemetery

    Her maiden name is much larger than her husband’s name; she is buried with the rest of the Horners; her elaborate monogram is her unmarried initials (but that is perhaps proper Victorian etiquette). Her married name is so inconspicuous, in fact, that the cemetery site lists this monument under the name Horner. There is a story here, a Victorian three-volume novel about a young woman from a wealthy family who married beneath her, who died tragically young, and whose family never really accepted her marriage. Or perhaps the story is something else entirely. This is not the only example of a young bride buried under her maiden name: Sallie Negley, “Wife of Dr. David M. McMasters,” has a beautiful romantic-style monument in the Negley-Mellon family plot.

    Section: 20

    Lot: 5

  • Brick Monument in the Beechview German Lutheran Cemetery

    This monument in the Victorian Romantic style is such a jumble of metaphors that old Pa Pitt is reluctant to try to untangle it. A number of elements—calla, ferns, cushion, scroll, drapery, rustic seat—are rendered individually with great realism, but thrown together in an extraordinarily unlikely way. The monument can be found (but probably won’t be found by most people) in a nearly forgotten German Lutheran cemetery on a hillside in Beechview.