Prospect Cemetery
Also known as Tarentum Burying Ground
Brackenridge, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
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More than 13,000 graves are now in Prospect Cemetery, although nearly half of them have no grave stone to mark someone's last resting place. Some of the original records were lost in the St. Patrick's Day flood of 1936, when the office, located on lower ground in Tarentum, flooded (not the cemetery itself), but the original burial book was spared, although it is rife with misspellings.
Prospect Cemetery is located in Brackenridge, just a few blocks beyond the Tarentum/Brackenridge dividing line. Brackenridge Borough was not formed until the 1901. In older obituaries, even after Brackenridge was established, Prospect Cemetery is sometimes referred to as the "Tarentum burying ground" because bodies and mourners coming from out of town would disembark the train at the Tarentum depot. There is no cemetery located in Tarentum. Today several cemeteries have Tarentum mailing addresses, but are located in outlying townships.
Every legible stone in the cemetery has been photographed and added to Find-a-Grave through 2021.
More than 13,000 graves are now in Prospect Cemetery, although nearly half of them have no grave stone to mark someone's last resting place. Some of the original records were lost in the St. Patrick's Day flood of 1936, when the office, located on lower ground in Tarentum, flooded (not the cemetery itself), but the original burial book was spared, although it is rife with misspellings.
Prospect Cemetery is located in Brackenridge, just a few blocks beyond the Tarentum/Brackenridge dividing line. Brackenridge Borough was not formed until the 1901. In older obituaries, even after Brackenridge was established, Prospect Cemetery is sometimes referred to as the "Tarentum burying ground" because bodies and mourners coming from out of town would disembark the train at the Tarentum depot. There is no cemetery located in Tarentum. Today several cemeteries have Tarentum mailing addresses, but are located in outlying townships.
Every legible stone in the cemetery has been photographed and added to Find-a-Grave through 2021.
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- Added: 1 Jan 2000
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 45831
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