Forest Park, IL
Photos don’t do this headstone justice. It has a gorgeous, textured pattern and sparkles in the sunshine. It is the most perfect Mid-Century Modern headstone, and I’ve never seen anything quite like it before. Fred Bachtel (1882 – 1954) was born in New York, and it’s unclear when he came to Chicago but it was […]
5 March 1897 – 24 July 1915 The Eastland, one of five chartered excursion boats meant to ferry employees, their families and friends from Chicago over to the Michigan City shore for the annual Western Electric Company picnic, keeled over into the Chicago River while still at dock, trapping hundreds inside its hull and leading […]
Carl Raths 28 Mar 1842 (Germany) – 16 Apr 1927 Augusta Staatz Raths 10 May 1856 – 6 Dec 1918 Frieda Aff 10 Sep 1876 – 15 Aug 1962 Charles Aff 11 Feb 1870 – 25 Dec 1945 Clara Schmidtke 8 Mar 1898 – 13 Feb 1950 William Schmidtke, Sr. 27 Feb 1897 – 13 […]
Lars Schmidt 1886 – 14 September 1890 Eddie Schmidt 28 April 1888 – 28 August 1890 Rudolph Schmidt 19 September 1891 – before 1900 Baby Schmidt 1890s This little headstone is quite famous, mentioned in guide books and identified on the Forest Home tourist handouts as a destination to visit. The two little brothers, Eddie […]
Elizabeth “Betty” Rakow 12 November 1906 – 24 July 1915 Maria Auguste Louise “Augusta” Schwahn Wiese 21 January 1850 – 24 July 1915 The Eastland, one of five chartered excursion boats meant to ferry employees, their families and friends from Chicago over to the Michigan City shore for the annual Western Electric Company picnic, keeled […]
James C. Justin, Jr. 4 November 1894 – 24 July 1915 Emily Mary Manthey 15 October 1892 – 24 July 1915 The Eastland, one of five chartered excursion boats meant to ferry employees, their families and friends from Chicago over to the Michigan City shore for the annual Western Electric Company picnic, keeled over into […]
Andrew “Andy” Schatz 22 March 1885 – 9 March 1930 This headstone is from the “select singles“ section of the cemetery which I believe means that instead of a lot, you’re literally just buying one plot. There are a few areas where there are several people from the same family close to each other, but […]
Irwin Nagel May 1895 – 24 July 1915 (aged 20) Margaret Nagel December 1897 – 24 July 1915 (aged 17) The Eastland, one of five chartered excursion boats meant to ferry employees, their families and friends from Chicago over to the Michigan City shore for the annual Western Electric Company picnic, keeled over into the […]
Corporal, Company A, 2nd Illinois Infantry, Spanish American War 8 September 1872 – 16 February 1914 This headstone is in Section C (near where Beulah Corley is buried) which I’ve learned since profiling Beulah was used for simple, time-limited term burials until just after World War II. The last burials you can find there date […]
Lauritz Carlsen 24 April 1824 – 13 August 1893 Ingeborg Olsdr Carlsen 18 June 1826 – September 1878 Ingemann Martinus “Martin” Carlsen 20 July 1855 – 4 September 1890 Frank Emil Carlsen 7 September 1857 – 1 September 1918 Dora Maria Lootz Carlsen 11 May 1859 – 24 June 1942 I wanted to revisit this […]