Pittsburgh Cemeteries

The Art and Architecture of Death

Goodman Y. Coulter, Jr., Monument, Bethany Cemetery

- Posted in Bethany Cemetery by

GOODMAN Y. COULTER, Jr.
Died in N. Orleans
March 1, 1851
interred here
March 21, 1851
in his 21 year.

To the young
He being dead yet speaketh.

A good example of the style of the 1850s; it must have looked very modern beside the traditional tombstones of ten years earlier. “He being dead yet speaketh” is a quotation from Hebrews 11:4.

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