Pittsburgh Cemeteries

The Art and Architecture of Death

Dinsmore Obelisk, Chartiers Cemetery

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A typical marble obelisk of the Civil War era. The inscriptions are eroded into near illegibility, but one legible death date is 1840. Since the cemetery is not that old, the monument was probably put up in the 1860s, and previously deceased family members were honored on it then.

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