Pittsburgh Cemeteries

The Art and Architecture of Death

William Davis Tombstone, Bethel Cemetery

- Posted in Bethel Cemetery by

William Davis

If Father Pitt reads this eroded inscription correctly, this is a tombstone for a two-year-old child named William Davis, son of James and Eliza Davis, who died in 1848. The epitaph is almost certainly a poem, but illegible in this light. The tombstone itself is a restrained example of the middle-nineteenth-century style that old Pa Pitt calls the “poster style,” because it resembles the style of printed posters of the same era.

This picture was taken in 2015.

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