William (Wilhelm) A. Rossow, Sr. 7 April 1876 – 24 July 1915 Mamie Groth Rossow 7 September 1879 – 24 July 1915 Ruth Rossow 20 June 1901 – 24 July 1915 William (Wilhelm) Rossow, Jr. 15 April 1909 – 24 July 1915 The Eastland, one of five chartered excursion boats meant to ferry employees, their […]
Rudolph John Adolph Riep 6 March 1882 – 21 May 1916 (aged 34) Rudolph was born in Chicago to German immigrant parents and was one of only four siblings of ten to survive childhood. His father worked at a lumber yard in the early years after arriving in the US, but eventually he became a […]
12 September 1899 – 24 July 1915 This is the first in what will be an ongoing series of posts documenting the graves of Eastland Disaster victims in Chicago area cemeteries. Ella was a fifteen-year-old telephone inspector working for the Western Electric Company when she was killed in the Eastland Disaster. She’d been employed for […]
Edwin J Stubbs 22 April 1867* – 9 April 1934 (at University Hospital in Augusta, Georgia) (The Honorable E.J. Stubbs, Knight of St. Gregory) Alma Piratsky Stubbs 11 January 1876* – 20 January 1959 (date of internment; could not find an exact date of death) The youngest surviving child of a British-born father Robert J. […]
3 November 1905 – 9 May 1919 Charley Pochik was the youngest of three named children of Joseph and Elizabeth (Sebysten) Pochik, immigrants from Austria-Hungary. Joseph immigrated at the age of 31 in 1896 and Elizabeth immigrated at the age of 21 in 1900; the two married two years later in April 1902. They had […]
5 April 1881 – 23 April 1962 Fannie was born in Latvia a few years before the “Russification measure” began in 1887. In January of 1905, Russian army troops opened fire on demonstrators in Riga, killing 73 and injuring another 200 people. A revolution also took place in the Baltic region that same year. It’s […]
11 September 1870 – 2 June 1928 The story of John Lavezzorio was fairly easy to discover as his death was written up in the Chicago Tribune, and unfortunately it is a tragic one. Lavezzorio was born in Genoa, Italy, to a family of laborers but was brought to Chicago by his father at the […]
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 […]