Saturday, October 20, 2007

Linn Headstones at Sewickley Cemetery



1 comment:

KGH said...

Thank you for posting the Linn headstones. I stumbled on to your blog while doing research on my ancestry. In addition to the five you have shown from lot A are 25 or so in lot B. The last internment was my brother two years ago - I beleive the 7th generation buried there. Why did you chose those stones?

Some interesting history for you:
The first internment at Sewcikley Cemetery was in 1860, Liddie Fundenberg - age 27. Her daughter, who she may have died giving birth to died two years later. Her husband, Walter was a founding member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club - you know, the Johnstown flood people.

The reason some of my ancestors' deaths preceded her's but she was interned there first is that they were, transplanted, for lack of a better word, in 1868 from the prior Sewickley Cemetary where the present day Quaker Valley Middle School stands.