Grave Searching at St. Mary's Cemetery

During my recent visit to Pittsburgh I journeyed out to St. Mary's Cemetery on Mt. Troy Road. The distinction of it being on Mt. Troy Road is somewhat important as there are other cemeteries called St. Mary's in the Pittsburgh area.

When I arrived at the cemetery I found that the office was of course closed. I could not find a map for the cemetery, except the online map. The online map will not print for me, so I did not have an actual physical copy of it with me. I did try to access it online using my phone, have you seen the size of the screen on my phone? I did have some information from the internet with sections of where I might find the graves; but of course the sections were not clearly marked at the cemetery. So that was very little help.

I did finally find the graves I was looking for, well 2 out of 3 of the graves I was searching for. If you check out the online map (click on it) the graves for Bertha Kerchenske and Florence Kuth are both located in section #3 in the Special Singles graves.

This is a picture of the chapel that is located at the cemetery.


Bertha Kerchenske is my great-grandmother. I was not really sure until I found the tombstone that she actually had one (the same for Florence). Bertha is the daughter of James and Emma Jane (Lane) Malone. She was the wife to Andrew Kuth, Robert McClure, and Clifford Kerchenske. She was the mother to Edward, Kathleen, Genevieve and Florence Kuth; she was also the mother of Robert, John, Richard, Helen, Mary, and Patrica McClure.

Bertha was born 22 June 1896 in Pennsylvania; she died 6 October 1967 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Florence Kuth was daughter of Andrew and Bertha (Malone) Kuth. Florence was born probably 4 months after the death of Andrew Kuth. The only record of Andrew I have obtained is from the cemetery, the old records were very hard to read.

Florence was born 23 June 1924 in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, she died 25 May 1943 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

In the same section that Bertha and Florence are buried in, I found this tombstone. This could be the son of Bertha, but I have no proof of that at this time. If someone knows for sure, please tell me. Otherwise I will look for some information to see if this is a relative.

Finally, while at the cemetery I was able to watch the horses at the farm located behind the cemetery. This little one was curious and kept watching me. Probably wondering why I kept walking back and forth actually....