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Nilles Angel, South Side Cemetery

A weathered and damaged angel that is all the more picturesque for the damage. The right hand was probably strewing flowers when the statue was intact.

Father PittAuthor Father Pitt Posted on 10 December 2020 Category South Side Cemetery Tags Nilles Angels Sculpture

Recording Angel on the Vallowe Shaft, South Side Cemetery

This angel is the guardian of the cemetery, taking careful notes about who has been stealing bronze doors from mausoleums. You have been warned.

Father PittAuthor Father Pitt Posted on 16 July 2020 Category South Side Cemetery Tags Angels Vallowe Shafts

Hax-McCullough Monument, Allegheny Cemetery

A row of Haxes and McCulloughs rests in front of this angel under identical slabs. C. C. Hax died in 1927, and this monument was put up in 1928 (according to the cemetery’s Web site). The Haxes made their money in leather goods and the McCulloughs in electric equipment, so this was what you would call a mixed marriage.

Father PittAuthor Father Pitt Posted on 01 November 2015 Category Allegheny Cemetery Tags Hax McCullough Angels Sculpture

Haudenshield-Robinson Monument, Chartiers Cemetery

A young and slightly bored-looking angel holds a banner with the words “In Memoriam.” It is an unusually good piece of sculpture. The monument may have been put up in 1911, when Ida May Haudenshield died.

Father PittAuthor Father Pitt Posted on 06 October 2015 Category Chartiers Cemetery Tags Haudenshield Robinson Angels

Yunker Angel, St. Mary’s Cemetery, Kennedy Township

A rustic stone cross with a very good flower-dropping angel standing on a rock, and the family name spelled out in twigs on the base. It probably dates from about 1905, when John Yunker was buried here.

Father PittAuthor Father Pitt Posted on 02 September 2015 Category Smaller Graveyards Tags Yunker Angels Crosses Sculpture
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