Forest Park, IL
21 September 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 […]
Julius E. Heidenreich 17 May 1840 – 30 June 1927 Anna Margaretha Geisler Heidenreich 1839 – 7 December 1896 Johann Carl Heidenreich 1810 – 12 June 1889 Maria Elizabeth Heidenreich dates unknown Ida Margaretha Heidenreich 15 September 1868 – 28 October 1964 (possibly) Though I found a record that seems to indicate that Julius and […]
6 April 1900 – 16 December 1927 Harry Green was the second son born to Fred Green and Mary Reinke Green Ebertshauser Lau. Both his parents were German immigrants who’d arrived in their early teens. Mary was only 16 when they married while Fred was 22. At the time of the 1900 census, they were […]
16 November 1898 – 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 […]
8 June 1888 – 2 March 1904 Henriette was the middle child and third daughter of German immigrants Joseph and Henriette Doehring Stolz. All the children were born in Champaign, Illinois, where their father was a farmer, but at some point after 1890 when youngest Edmond was born, they moved to Chicago. In 1900, Joseph […]
Clara Anna Maria Rohn Western Electric employee 2 April 1897 – 24 July 1915 Lydia Anna Ida Rohn worked at a tailor shop 24 December 1898 – 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 […]
30 August 1895 — 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 […]
1 September 1874 – 13 August 1896 Because of when she was born and died, finding information on Emma is difficult, but we can find a bit more about her parents with whom she shares the headstone. Christian (1 May 1843 – 18 August 1914) and Wilhelmine “Mina” Reppin Schultz (5 February 1840 – 29 […]
15 November 1889 – 6 January 1944 Otto was the second youngest and youngest son of Herman and Augusta Sieloff Bornzin, German immigrants who came to the US after their older children were born. Otto and his nearest-older brother and younger sister, however, were born in Chicago. In 1910, Otto was still living at home […]
This one is a bit of a puzzler. On one side of this family monument, Minnie Krause Jacobi Zink’s name and dates are inscribed (7 September 1883 – 20 March 1911)* and on the reverse are her younger siblings Olga (23 October 1888 – 18 April 1910) and Harry (31 October 1886 – 6 October […]