January 9, 1914 – March 23, 2005 He Lived for the Party I was working on this post and having a very hard time finding information about Mr. West. I loved his headstone and couldn’t figure out why someone with such a long life had left such a sparse trail. I did find some social […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Carl Joerndt December 24, 1826 – August 11, 1902 Henrietta (Brunnengräber) Joerndt March 17, 1832 – February 4, 1913 (reposted with edits from @postsinthegraveyard, December 29, 2020) Carl and Henrietta Joerndt were German immigrants who arrived in the US in 1867. They were married in Schwerin in Germany in 1853 when both were in their […]
Samuel Fallows DD, LLD 1835 – 1922 Lucy Bethia (Huntington) Fallows 1840 – 1916 (reposted from @postsinthegraveyard, December 20, 2020) This memorial is not a gravestone. Reverend Fallows and his wife are both interred in Massachusetts where she is from. This is a memorial stone erected after his death to honor his many accomplishments primarily […]