Pittsburgh Cemeteries

The Art and Architecture of Death

A good stock Pietà marks the grave of a soldier who died just a month and a half before the end of the First World War. The rustic stone with scroll that serves as a base does not match very well, and may have ben a replacement after the monument was damaged.

LOUIS FOSTER DIED SEPT. 29, 1918.
CO. M. 319 INF. A. E. F.

A well-preserved tombstone in the “poster style,” as Father Pitt calls it, that was popular in the 1840s and 1850s. This one adds a very woodcutty weeping willow.