CEMETERY: Ross Cemetery, Lower Burrell, Westmoreland County, PA

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This page was last updated 25 Apr 2006

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Ross Cemetery, Lower Burrell, Westmoreland County, PA

  Located behind Clementine's Family Restaurant, 2604 Leechburg Road, Lower 
Burrell, PA

Abstracted by Ellis Michaels

  This cemetery was built on land originally owned by the Ross Family, and was 
established ca. 1849 as the cemetery for the St. James' Lutheran Church.  The 
church later disbanded, and the cemetery reverted to the Ross family.

Directions to cemetery:
  1) From PA Turnpike 76, take EXIT 48 toward PA-28/PITTSBURGH.
  2) Merge onto FREEPORT ROAD, and follow for 1/2 mile
  3) Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto INDIANOLA RD/PA-910/YELLOW BELT for 0.2 mile.
  4) Merge onto PA-28 N toward NEW KENSINGTON/TARENTUM for 6.6 miles.
  5) Take the PA-366/EXIT 14-toward TARENTUM/ NEW KENSINGTON for 0.2 mile.
  6) Take the ramp toward TARENTUM/BRACKENRIDGE for 0.2 mile.
  7) Turn RIGHT onto BULL CREEK RD/PA-366/RED BELT. Continue to follow PA-366 
     S. For 1.6 miles
  8) Turn LEFT onto FREEPORT ROAD for 0.1 mile.
  9) FREEPORT RD becomes LEECHBURG ROAD for 0.2 mile.

GPS COORDINATES:
LAT: N40 35.257'
LONG: W079 44.503'
ELEV: 1003 feet

  Transcription recorded by author using a digital photographic survey and 
inventory, performed on site 10 Oct 2005.

LAST        FIRST     MIDDLE     BIRTH         DEATH            COMMENT

Caldwell    John      C.         1836          1905             GAR Flag Marker
Caldwell    Martha    A.         04 Jan 1819   25 Jun 1894      w/o Robert, shares stone with R.T.
Caldwell    R.        T.         10 Nov 1851   16 Apr 1853      shares stone with Martha A.
Ross        Andrew    -          17 Sep 1816   01 May 1847      buried at sea, new marker
Ross        George    Franklin   22 Aug 1854   17 May 1927      shares stone with Alice B., new stone
Ross        Alice     Belle      08 Apr 1856   03 Jun 1927      shares stone with George F., new stone
Ross        William   -          08 Jul 1814   20 Dec 1895      shares stone with Martha P.
Ross        Martha    P.         12 Jun 1824   19 Apr 1904      shares stone with William.
Ross        Mary      Eliza      30 Nov 1821   19 Sep 1848      d/o W. & E., new stone, original stone damaged/broken,
                                                                unseated.
Ross        William   -          24? Nov 1762  28 Aug 1849      shares stone with Esther, Revolutionary War Flag Marker.
Ross        Esther    -          01 Jan 1780   18 Jan 1854      shares stone with William.
R.          W.        R.         -             -                footstone, unseated, against tree
S.          E.        -          -             -                footstone
Smetanick   Daniel    R.         09 Dec 1943   13 May 2005      bronze marker