Monthly Archives: August 2025

Saturday August 30th from 10am – 2pm is the next headstone restoration work date at Rose Hill Cemetery in Bloomington, Indiana. Come help wash and re-set gravestones.  Stay as long as you can and help out.  As you all know, … Continue reading →

Michael “Mike” Benedum Born: July 16, 1869, Bridgeport, West Virginia Died: July 30, 1959, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Sarah Nancy Lantz Benedum Born: September 22, 1872, Blacksville, West Virginia Died: August 11, 1951 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Lieutenant Claude Worthington Benedum Born January 13, … Continue reading →

Cemeteries, large and small, urban and rural, often need volunteers to help maintain them.  That help can range anywhere from volunteers planting flowers in cradle gravestones, washing grave markers, resetting gravestones, mending fences, trimming trees, and even lawn care.  For … Continue reading →

The stained-glass window in the back of the Wittmer Family Mausoleum in the Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh is a montage of symbolism.  Like many such displays the meaning of the symbolism is not always straight forward—that is, it is subject … Continue reading →