Pittsburgh Cemeteries

The Art and Architecture of Death

Margaret, Mary M., and George Allison Tombstone, Chartiers Hill Cemetery

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This triple tombstone, the only one of its kind from its era that Father Pitt has ever seen, remembers three Allison children who all died in January of 1836. The cause of death is not stated, but it must have been some childhood disease that carried them off one after another. Scarlet fever is a likely candidate.

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