Pittsburgh History - Allegheny Cemetery Discussion and Tour - Night Time
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- čas přidán 3. 02. 2021
- I thought I'd go see if I could find my ancestor in this very historic cemetery. It gets dark while I'm in the cemetery but I'm not scared so you shouldn't be either :)
I found something that I'm very interested in participating in - headstone documentation project for Pennsylvania. This is the record on file for this exact cemetery, the ones related to me have not been submitted, so, I plan to submit -- usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny/...
What a lovely cemetery! Makes me think of the lovely Spring Grove cemetery in Cincinnati. I hope I get to have a picnic in this one some day when it's warmer.
Oh my yes, that would be wonderful! It is a popular place for steampunk gatherings. The one thing it is sadly lacking is public bathrooms... I don't know if they did offer access to one of the larger buildings in the hay day, but in modern times that lack is a bit of a deterrent to longer visits. Coincidentally that entrance on the cover art is right across the street from where we've gone for the diner the last couple times you were in town! I am hoping I can eventually find Margaret Barker, too... at least I know her details of where she's buried now :)
I spent the night in the security house "castle" during a Halloween party once. It was wild.
It looks beautiful with the snow cover
Thank you so much for watching :) I agree the snow is lovely :)
J. B. Ford was the founder of Pittsburgh Plate Glass (PPG) and the person "Ford City, PA" was named after.
So cool! My grandpa who taught me so much worked at PPG ❤
Oh hell yeah Let's Go!
Wow, if local tour guide is ever a feasible livelihood... And bladdernut--I have never in my life encountered it and had to go look it up! Now I won't be satisfied until I lay eyes on it, haha! Found a great detailed map indicating that in my neck of the woods it's only found in southern NH along the Connecticut River/western border, which is not immediately out the back door.
Aww, thank you!!
Hmmm.... once I collect seeds I could totally send you some, would you be interested in that? :)
@@CliffsidePermaculture Yes, I really would--that would be SO wonderful and appreciated! Reading further online info, looks like flowers are frequented by a variety of native bees and flies. :)
@@formidableflora5951 Let's plan for it for sure then! I'll check to see if there's some still around where I know they're growing to see if we can get that going soon or if we need to wait for fall :) :)
Nice tour
Thank you so much!
@@CliffsidePermaculture your welcome much love xoxox
You're so fun to listen to 🥰
Aww thank you!!
So awsome
Thank you so much!!
My great grandfather is buried there in 1864
Very neat! It's good to keep connected with our family histories
Now i know where our geese are lol much love xoxox
Lol! ...I grew up very much disliking your geese... They made or football fields sooooo gross, when i was in marching band. We do indeed always have your geese in the off season :)
@@CliffsidePermaculture lol I never knew how gross they were till later too lol
Good fertilizer;) bringing the lake to the shoreline and fields
@@wildedibles819 That's true it does do that... it's just such messy fertilizer, so watery... kinda like paste and sulfur smelling! Ewwww
@@CliffsidePermaculture lol
Pretty lights :)
Thank you! I think i know exactly which plot she's in now (maps! Yay!) For next time we'll find her easier. Though my mom said she's actually insidethe main administrative mosolium and this is a different Margaret Barker. Hmmmm...
@@CliffsidePermaculture lol and the mystery continues lol
Was she originally burried there or was she moved ?
@@wildedibles819 I see my mom very rarely and I have to admit I left that conversation more confused than not. Well.... trying to remember... it might be that she's not sure if we're related to this Margaret Barker or not, and then there's a Margaret Austin in the mausoleum that she knows we are related to or something like that. The conversation kept jumping around and I got so lost I am really not sure! All of Mom's grandmothers and great grandmothers were named Margaret... she grew up thinking that being a grandmother just meant your name had to be changed to Margaret LOL... the conversations are easy to get lost in because of that difficult overlap of all the first names.
@@CliffsidePermaculture ya I guess it would
I got lost tracing history too
My mom's dad we can trace his history back easily with the vanduzen family name my hubby we can trace back too being VanBlaricum
Van back in 1300-1400s meant born in
Blaricum is still a place well the family name didn't change
Vanduzen has changed from van durren
It's interesting looking back sometimes
@@wildedibles819 Oh that is very very cool! We have this one name "Sourwine" that we can trace back pretty far but not that far! Sourwine was originally Sauerwein, which means vinegar maker. Jacob Sauerwein got on a bot from Anheim in 1692 coming to the US, but the thing is.... there were 3 different Anheim's in germany at the time, and the ship manifest doesn't say which one LOL. So the trail on that one gets lost a bit. On the other side there's a William Findley (senator and house member later on, yeah, that one) we do have his. He's from Dutil Ireland and immigrated in 1756 to the US. By 1780s he's in Pittsburgh, mediating the wiskey rebellion. That's my dad's mom's family. I get more confused by the family lines that I don't know stories for. I learn best from good stories :) and the only good story about all the Margarets is that I know they were all Margarets. Margaret Austin I found her burned down house by recognizing a cultivated garden amist neck-high grasses on a bank, that I did get a name attached to so that was nice to clarify. There are some FUN stories :) I like that part.
During summer I spend whole day in the cemetery til it's time close the gates
Imagine if the door never closed? Technically it is closed, but many people still out walking just like me!
I need help with my genealogy....
Geese
Play hide and seek friends
Sounds fun!