Robert H. Piratzky 27 May 1835 (Prussia) – 19 September 1912 Agnes Frinier Piratzky 29 June 1841 (Quebec) – 19 February 1925 Mary Ann Frinier Bouchard 5 July 1836 (Quebec) – 4 March 1913 Robert Piratzky was a successful photographer, lithographer, and engraver who immigrated from Prussia in July 1857. He met Agnes Frinier sometime […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dr. Gustav H. Moldenhauer May 28, 1874 – May 17, 1952 Alma Ganschow Moldenhauer February 2, 1879 – May 25, 1963 Dr. William J. Moldenhauer November 7, 1881 – June 30, 1942 Lina Ganschow Moldenhauer June 8, 1882 – May 16, 1915 William Moldenhauer May 16, 1915 – September 27, 1915 Sylvia D. Biermann Kummerow […]
1883 – May 20, 1965 Beautifully situated at the main intersection at the front of the cemetery, across from the Reich family plot to the east and the Netzel mausoleum to the north, this elegant mausoleum was erected by pioneering woman physician Selma O. Colbe in honor of her parents. She and her parents and […]
R. Herman Netzel October 18, 1873 – April 1, 1948 Mary J. (Haack) Netzel May 8, 1876 – September 23, 1940 Henry W. Netzel April 24, 1898 – December 28, 1966 Mary E. Netzel November 17, 1898 – July 3, 1982 Herman Netzel was born in Germany in 1873 and according to his obituary had […]