15 March 1909 – 4 March 1987 “Heroine in the Struggle” Born in New Orleans to a stalwart and vocal union man, Woods performed her first protest at the age of ten when she refused to sing the national anthem after she realized she and her siblings were forbidden to play in the park they […]
Clara Diana Shaw Kennedy 1855 – January 1902 James Frederick Shaw Kennedy 1849 – 24 November 1901 This is the coffin of the Clara Diana, kept in a building that backed up to the wall between the cemetery and the church beyond in West Highgate Cemetery. There were stacks of old coffins in this dark […]
Mary Gentile 8 December 1863 – 30 June 1951 Michele Gentile 4 December 1865 – 4 February 1930 I was not able to find out much about this couple as they don’t show up in the census or any other public records that I can be certain are referring to them until the 1930 census. […]
Herman Gehrt 29 January 1857 – 10 July 1920 Sophie Fahs Gehrt 17 December 1863 – 18 May 1940 I absolutely love this headstone and had not seen one like it prior to the Gehrts but have since seen similar examples in others’ photos. It seems odd that such grand headstones could be catalog options, […]
Beata Ida Charlotte Gildemeister Unruh December 28, 1907 – August 14, 1955 Elmer A. Unruh October 31, 1899 – September 1, 1978 I love this simple, metal headstone. It’s very small but stands out from the more usual stone headstones around it. Beata was the second oldest child and oldest daughter of John and Louisa […]
19 May 1919 – 6 February 1928 Irving Glassman was the second of four sons born to immigrant parents Sophie Panijal (from Romania) and Harry Glassman (his records initially list Russia but the Glassmans were from Warsaw so once Poland became an independent nation after 1918, the records list it as his country of origin). […]
August 17, 1902 – May 8, 1913 When I chose a photo of this headstone as the icon for my instagram, I had no idea how it would tie into the other stories I would discover in my research. At the time, it was just a lovely headstone that I’d taken a lot of pictures […]
Johann “John” Beutner 23 March 1849 – 14 March 1923 Sophia Elizabeth Boldt Beutner 7 January 1850 – 24 November 1927 Maria “Mary” Beutner Holpuch Kojisek (Kozisek) 3 August 1874 – 28 December 1957 Johann “John Thomas” Beutner 15 February 1877 – 18 November 1925 Karl “Charles William” Beutner 28 September 1886 – 18 February […]
1 December 1914* – 14 June 1983 Chuck Magid was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but was attracted by the spotlights from a young age. We first encounter him stepping foot into the US to see a show in Detroit just after his nineteenth birthday, a short visit but perhaps an important one in his life, […]
May 30, 1914 – April 26, 1920 What fascinates me about this headstone is the note above little Ruth’s name, “Erected by Mary J. Gordon.” It seems so odd to see this. The Plath family does not seem to have been poor or struggling. Their oldest son George was already buried nearby by the time […]