Wilhelmine “Minnie” Parman Hagemeister 30 November 1864 – 21 June 1940 Wilhelm “William” Hagemeister 4 July 1862 – 7 July 1938 The monument for the Hagemeister family in Forest Home is striking in that it seems to portray a real person. The statue topping their monument is of an adult woman, somewhere in her middle […]
Grace Palmer Buell Carr 12 September 1870 – 1 October 1922 Grace’s story is as mysterious as her mausoleum which sits back in the hillside on Mausoleum Row at Forest Home Cemetery. Her life story has only a few random signposts to illuminate what I think must have been a pretty interesting life. Grace and […]
Ida Meinhoff (or Mezlof) Block 23 December 1855 – 6 June 1922 Carl Julius Block* 19 September 1850 – 29 November 1930 Ida and Julius met and married (1875) in their native Germany and had several children before immigrating to the US in 1884. Julius arrived early in 1884, on February 19th on the Helvetia, […]
25 July 1829 – 11 February 1862 Oh, how much I love Lizzie. I have been a massive fan of hers since I was but a wee college student first discovering the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) back in the last century. I even wrote my senior thesis on Lizzie and her sister-in-law Christina Rossetti. She is […]
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 […]
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 […]