Saturday, August 4, 2012
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Allegheny Cemetery (Lawrenceville Neighborhood)
This is the start of exploration to some of the parts of Pittsburgh that we had not visited. We drove along the Allegheny River from Pittsburgh heading east to our first stop, Lawrenceville. We needed a place to turn around (to find a good parking spot) and stumbled upon this fascinating cemetery. The Allegheny Cemetery was incorporated in 1844 and is one of the largest and oldest burial grounds in Pittsburgh. The list of the notable graves is listed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegheny_Cemetery.
In 1973 the Butler Street Gatehouse was listed on the National Registry of Historic Places and in 1980 the entire cemetery was listed.
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My great-grandparents (John Steele and Elizebeth McKeown Steele) used to live and work at the Allegheny Cemetary at the turn of the 20th century. Both the Steele and McKeown families immigrated together from Belfast, Ireland in 1891 and lived together in a house at the cemetery. He was employed as a cemetery laborer until he got a job with Keystone Pipeline. Unfortunately, they both died of an epidemic and all of their children were divided up to live with different families. My grandfather Myles, lived with his uncle and aunt (James McKeown and Lizzie Steele) who later moved to Kalamazoo, MI where my family now resides. I have since moved to Ringgold, Georgia in 2007.
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