20 August 1894 – 24 July 1915 The Eastland, one of five chartered excursion boats meant to ferry employees, their families and friends from Chicago over to the Michigan City shore for the annual Western Electric Company picnic, keeled over into the Chicago River while still at dock, trapping hundreds inside its hull and leading […]
Emma Wedde Kramp 24 August 1877 (unknown) – 27 February 1905 (Chicago) Richard Otto Kramp 5 August 1878 (Michrow, Prussia) – May 1964 (Chicago) Emma L. Giese Raum Kramp 3 August 1877 (Chicago) – 9 December 1935 (Chicago) This is the kind of discovery I love as a researcher, even though the discovery is pretty […]
19 October 1890 – 24 July 1915 The Eastland, one of five chartered excursion boats meant to ferry employees, their families and friends from Chicago over to the Michigan City shore for the annual Western Electric Company picnic, keeled over into the Chicago River while still at dock, trapping hundreds inside its hull and leading […]
This gorgeous headstone is set in the middle of Section 9, somewhat hidden. I think I’ve seen it before, but until I got up close, it didn’t pop for me. The family was originally from a part of the Austrian Empire that is in modern Romania. They emigrated from their homeland in 1905, after all […]
Alma Zielske 26 October 1893 – 24 July 1915 Lillian “Lillie” Prochnow 21 February 1898 – 24 July 1915 (several records say Lillie was born in 1897, but her birth certificate says 1898) The Eastland, one of five chartered excursion boats meant to ferry employees, their families and friends from Chicago over to the Michigan […]
27 February 1883 – 24 July 1915 The Eastland, one of five chartered excursion boats meant to ferry employees, their families and friends from Chicago over to the Michigan City shore for the annual Western Electric Company picnic, keeled over into the Chicago River while still at dock, trapping hundreds inside its hull and leading […]
Augusta Blum Sperling March 1844 – 1926 Selma Anna Sperling 1872, Germany – 12 October 1911 Ida Sperling 1876, Michigan – 7 June 1893, Chicago Oscar Sperling September 1879, Michigan – 10 June 1904 Concordia appears to be a rather medium-sized cemetery. findagrave.com lists 35.5K entries for it, but in spite of that, if I […]
Jennie Pulver Tobias passed away heartbreakingly young at only 34 years of age, and this loss was obviously greatly felt by her family. The mausoleum was purchased and erected to entomb this lost daughter and wife and the epitaph over the door is mourning her loss. According to findagrave.com, the entire Tobias family is interred […]
Marie Serritello (Mary Serritella) 4 Dec 1908 – 9 May 1917 This one is confusing because the name is spelled differently on the death record and that led to someone appending pictures of this headstone to the @findagrave record of a similarly-named young woman who died in her 20s. 8-year-old Marie’s record is under the spelling […]
1 November 1890 – 24 July 1915 The Eastland, one of five chartered excursion boats meant to ferry employees, their families and friends from Chicago over to the Michigan City shore for the annual Western Electric Company picnic, keeled over into the Chicago River while still at dock, trapping hundreds inside its hull and leading […]