Walter L. Von Schenck August 9, 1877 – March 18, 1878 (aged 7 months) Anna Schenk dates unreadable Phebe M. Schenck* dates unreadable I chose this grave because, though worn and almost unreadable, it is strikingly beautiful, it’s cross-and-crown symbol (representing suffering in life rewarded by eternal reward in heaven) looks as if it had […]
July 7, 1892 – July 6, 1926 My great-aunt Dottie was the third child of six. Her oldest sibling, sister Ethel, died in 1901 of diptheria, four years before her youngest sibling (my grandfather) was born. One of my favorite random facts about Dottie is that she is listed twice in the 1910 census, once […]
This secret society, founded in London in 1781, once had upwards of 35,000 members worldwide but seems to have gone extinct. They used faux druidic symbolism and names but had no historic or religious observance relationship to the ancient Celts. Favorite fact: their local organizations were called groves! Their dedicated section in Forest Home was […]
R. Herman Netzel October 18, 1873 – April 1, 1948 Mary J. (Haack) Netzel May 8, 1876 – September 23, 1940 Henry W. Netzel April 24, 1898 – December 28, 1966 Mary E. Netzel November 17, 1898 – July 3, 1982 Herman Netzel was born in Germany in 1873 and according to his obituary had […]
Peter Peterson July 20, 1839 – August 15, 1916 (aged 77) Anna (Miller) Peterson (married in 1868) February 3, 1843 – December 31, 1879 (aged 36) Bertha (Rathke) Peterson (married in 1881) December 11, 1846 – September 25, 1930 (aged 83) (reposted from @postsinthegraveyard, January 10, 2021) After seeing a picture of this absolutely stunning […]
April 30, 1893 – July 6, 1951 (original research inspired by Grunow Mausoleum entry on @postsinthegraveyard) William Carl August Grunow was born to a German-immigrant father and Illinois-born mother at the end of the nineteenth century. His early life was marked by a great deal of loss. He was the oldest of five siblings, but […]
April 29, 1885 – October 15, 1910 (age 25) Mary was born in Chicago to German immigrant parents John and Maria Wendt. She was baptised on May 21, 1885, at Trinity Lutheran in Chicago, and her baptismal name was Maria Sophia Wilhelmine. In 1900, she was living at home with her parents and four brothers […]
Louis Fred Melcher February 23, 1870 – January 18, 1941 Wilhelmine “Minnie” (Klaves) Melcher 1870 – 1959 William “Willie” Melcher 1906 – March 10, 1909 Charles Melcher 1926 (reposted from @postsinthegraveyard, January 5, 2021) The research on this one was complicated by the fact that there were two couples named Louis & Minnie Melcher who […]
Otto J. Woldt November 13, 1875 – November 13, 1938 Ida (Soeldner) Woldt October 1882 – July 1949 (reposted from @postsinthegraveyard with some edits, January 2, 2021) Sometimes I’m not sure looking through my pictures why I photographed certain headstones, but researching the Woldts turned out to be very interesting. Otto Woldt was born on […]