1 Aug 1976 — 28 Oct 2010 (aged 34) This beautiful headstone is in Highgate Cemetery East which, unlike it’s West counterpart, can be explored freely by visitors. The East section still shares the rather untended, haphazard layout of its West cousin, but many of the headstones are downright whimsical and modern in the artistic […]
Andrew Jackson Ford 27 July 1838 – 25 August 1913 Jane Frances Clore Ford 3 October 1848 – 6 December 1919 My great-great-grandfather Andrew Jackson Ford was the third of ten children and my great-great-grandmother Jane Francis Clore Ford was the youngest of eleven children (though I suspect one of the sisters listed on one […]
9 August 1892 – 17 October 1918 Edward August Herman Matthies 12 November 1913 – 19 November 1913 Melvin Walter Matthies 16 October 1916 – 18 May 2007 (The records spell all the family names a variety of ways – Cramp, Crump, Matthies, Matthis, Matthias, and so on.) Anna was born to German immigrant parents […]
Paul Moreau-Vauthier 26 November 1871 – 2 February 1936 Paul Moreau-Vauthier was a French sculptor who first came to prominence in 1900 when he designed the statue, La Parisienne, that crowned The Porte Monumental de Paris (the main entrance) for the Paris Exposition. Though he was 45 at the time, he fought in World War […]
William Ganschow 25 December 1843* – 6 February 1904 Carolina Consoer Ganschow January 1848 – 5 December 1924 I became interested in William Ganschow and his family when I discovered his daughters’ stories while researching the Moldenhauer Mausoleum last week ago. His mausoleum is far more mysterious than that of his daughters, grandson, granddaughter, and […]