Cemeteries of Civil War Interest around Pittsburgh, PA

• Allegheny Cemetery, 4734 Butler Street See photos of monuments to 9th Pennsylvania Reserves veterans.
  
• Homewood Cemetery (Dallas & Aylesboro Avenue); see also The Homewood Cemetery.
  
• Homestead Cemetery.
  
• Uniondale Cemetery at Brighton Road in North Side contains the grave sites of 260 Civil War soldiers (See Jonathan D. Silver, "Proper markers for Civil War vets: Tireless work has upgraded cemetery," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 24 May 1998, pages B1, B2).
  
• Richland Cemetery (Dravosburg).
  
• Versailles Cemetery (McKeesport).
  
• Calvary Cemetery (Squirrel Hill/Greenfield).
  
• Braddock Cemetery.
  
• Bright Family Cemetery maintained by American Legion Post 600, Oakmont
  
• A family cemetery in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, outside Saegertown.
  
• Bethel Cemetery, on Bethel Church Road, one mile from Route 88 (Library Road). There is a monument to Captain Thomas Espy (see their item number 15), after whom the GAR Post, Andrew Carnegie Free Library, is named.

  See Tom and Nancy McAdams' Civil War Veterans Tombstone Inscriptions Allegheny County Pennsylvania / TOMBSTONE & MONUMENT PHOTOGRAPHS FROM ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PA.

  The monument (on left) in Dravo Cemetery, not far from McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and cared for by Elizabeth Township Historical Society, contains the names of Revolutionary War and Civil War soldiers. See Dravo Methodist Church and Cemetery and Dravo Cemetery . See also Civil War Veterans Tombstone Inscriptions Allegheny County Pennsylvania (by Tom and Nancy McAdams), where you'll find the names of William Bankard, James Campbell, John French, Daniel Hobaugh (d. 2 Oct 1879), David Keinzie, Charles Lightner, Zeke Painter, Abraham Penman (Co. F, 12th PA Regt) and Thomas Price.

  
  

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