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Located at 4734 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA. The Allegheny Cemetery, founded in 1844, spreads over 300 acres and is the burial location of over 124,000 people. Notable burials from Pennsylvania's Grand Review 100 Voices include: Absalom Arters, 22nd USCT; Rufus Sib Jones, 8th USCT; John W. Simpson, 24th USCT; Oliver Steele, 55th Mass. (By Rebecca Solnit)
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In central Pennsylvania, the train carrying Stephen Foster's remains home to Pittsburgh derails Crime/Disasters
In New York's Bellevue Hospital, songwriter Stephen Foster dies suddenly, aged thirty-seven Personal
Lillian Russell, famous American operetta singer, born in Clinton, Iowa Personal
Songwriter Stephen Foster is buried at the Allegheny Cemetery outside Pittsburgh Personal
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