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Selected War Memorials
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Homestead Cemetery Civil War Memorial
Homestead, PA
On the grounds of the Homestead Cemetery.
In the center of A Ring is a
memorial to Civil War Veterans.
The monument is an armed soldier on a
lit pedestal with canons and cannonballs. The monument states:
“A.D. 1891, Erected to the
memory of the country’s defenders by General Griffin Post Number 207 G.
A. R. Gen Griffin Circle of number 41,
Ladies of the G/A/ R. , J.S.
Hollingshead, Camp number 8. Sons of veterans and the citizens of
Homestead and vicinity.”
Each side of the monument
commemorates a Union victory, those battles being: Gettysburg,
Appomattox, and Vicksburg.
The monument is surrounded by a circle
of 41 graves of war veterans. Many are too weathered to read.
Three of the forty-one tombstones are
missing but are marked by Memorial Day Flags.
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1. broken stone;
2. Bennett, Joseph B., june 21
1850-jun 30 1934, Bugler Co F, 182 regiment, 21 Pennsylvania Cavalry;
3. thru 5. illegble; 6.
Critchlow, ; 7. Dinkell, George, 1st SGT. COE, 107th PA Infantry;
8. McWhorter, William S., Co A,
55 PA Infantry;
9. Hemminger, August, 1835 1897,
11th Corp, 3rd Division, 74th Regt., Co. B, PA Vol, SGT Infantry;
10. Wright, ???, 240th Ohio Inf;
11. Johnston, George, dec 9 1910-jan 8
1952. enlisted june 10 1943, discharged jan 26 1946. Tec 3 110, SW Co
1315 engineers;
12. Granger, ????, died 1912, PA
volunteers; 13. illegible; 14.Gh??? ly, ?? died aug 27 1911, 43rd
Infantry;
15. ???orry, John, (broken stone); 16.
Rice, Elias, 18?7-1918; 17. missing stone, civil war flag marker
18. thru 23. Illegible; 24. missing
stone; 25. Celsey?, ?? S. ; 26. - 27. illegible; 28. missing stone
29. - 30. illegible; 31. Palmer,
Robert; 32. Negley, Ja?, died march 1910, infantry
33. - 34. illegible; 35. Geiger?; 36.
Stoup, ??; 37. - 38. illegible
39 Davies, Ephraim, US Navy; 40.
illegible
41. Perry?????
