JOSEPH
McMURRAY
D i e d
Sept. 16, 1839
Aged 46 years
10 mo. & 11 day
An early example of the “poster style,” with each line in a different style of lettering.
Pittsburgh Cemeteries
The Art and Architecture of Death
The Art and Architecture of Death
JOSEPH
McMURRAY
D i e d
Sept. 16, 1839
Aged 46 years
10 mo. & 11 day
An early example of the “poster style,” with each line in a different style of lettering.
DIED
Sept. 18, 1856
In the 56th Yr.
of her age
MARTHA
Wife of
JOSEPH McMURRAY
The influence of printing on grave markers in the 1850s is especially obvious in this one, which, in its broad variety of lettering styles—a different one for each line—looks very much like a printed poster from the same era. Father Pitt cannot quite read the epitaph.