A Brief History

In the 1880’s, Oscar Tobias Beight began working in the monument industry cutting and designing monuments for a small company in New Castle, PA. He worked for the company until the owner retired and then purchased the company and relocated to East Palestine, OH. The picture below right commemorates our first stone monument made by Oscar and shows his crew of seven men setting the stone at the Little Beaver Cemetery in Enon Pennsylvania in 1897. The color picture lower left is the same monument, as it looked 114 years later - 2011.

The Herr Family Monument as it looked in 2011, 114 years after O.T. Beight & Son's construction in 1897.

Established in East Palestine during the year 1897, Oscar Tobias Beight began perfecting the fine craftsmanship of quality granite monument design for the general public. He brought two of his three sons into the business and began teaching them the same quality workmanship; for many years they worked side by side. O. T. Beight retired in the 1930’s and his two sons Wilbur and Roy continued to update and improve their craft with the newest technology and equipment.

The third generation of the Beight family, Cecil, Dale, and Nevin, continued the tradition of using only the finest quality granite and creating some of the best memorials in the country. The family business continued to grow and was widely recognized for outstanding craftsmanship, beauty, and customer satisfaction.

We are now in the fourth generation of producing only the highest quality of monuments with three locations to better serve you. We have delivered markers as far away as Alaska and California . We use the finest granite our country has to offer and import top grade granite from around the world.

The image to the right is our first mobile sandblaster used for lettering headstone monuments in Ohio and Pennsylvania cemeteries. We mounted it to a Ford Model A truck frame. Prior to this inovation, all of our cemetery lettering was done with a hammer and chisel.

If you would like us to custom design and construct a family mausoleum, a one-of-a kind monument, or a marker for a loved family pet, we are here and ready to fulfill your needs. We also cut names, numbers, and designs for residential landscaping. Visit one of our offices to see the top quality granite we have to offer and see many photos of monuments we have designed.

O.T. Beight & Son's President - Eric Beight - Got started at an early age. See our original Ohio Monument yard, top left of picture. Has been in the same location since 1897.