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 […]
12 October 1858 – 20 August 1927 James Lingenfelter was born in Montgomery, New York to a family of native New York Staters. He was the third youngest of eight children (five boys and three girls), and when he was five years old, his father died or perhaps abandoned the family forever. In any case, […]
February 28, 1891 – November 7, 1924 Rose was born in Kiev to Max and Anna (Manchewsky) Kadin, but she and her parents immigrated to the US just two years later in 1893. The family was almost certainly fleeing the pogroms which ravaged Jewish communities throughout the southwestern part of Imperial Russia (present-day Poland and […]
Dr. Gustav H. Moldenhauer May 28, 1874 – May 17, 1952 Alma Ganschow Moldenhauer February 2, 1879 – May 25, 1963 Dr. William J. Moldenhauer November 7, 1881 – June 30, 1942 Lina Ganschow Moldenhauer June 8, 1882 – May 16, 1915 William Moldenhauer May 16, 1915 – September 27, 1915 Sylvia D. Biermann Kummerow […]
June 26, 1874 – September 21, 1890 I’ve photographed Lillie Diener’s monument a few times for obvious reasons (see pictures), but as I started to research the life of this clearly deeply mourned young woman, I discovered a much larger story than I expected. Lillie’s monument turned out to be — on wider inspection following […]
George Whitfield Brown (IV) November 2, 1874 – August 25, 1961 Ellen Lenore Acres December 16, 1874 – February 6, 1970 This lovely couple are my great grandparents! They are my mother’s mother’s parents. George Whitfield was the third definitely and probably fourth person in the family line to be named after the pre-revolutionary evangelist […]