12 April 1879 – 27 October 1925 This is such an unusual little headstone, with just the name and then this little metal handle with her etiquette-book married name inscribed on it. I have no idea of the significance of the handle, if any, but it struck me as quite curious and interesting. Jessie was […]
Lars Schmidt 1886 – 14 September 1890 Eddie Schmidt 28 April 1888 – 28 August 1890 Rudolph Schmidt 19 September 1891 – before 1900 Baby Schmidt 1890s This little headstone is quite famous, mentioned in guide books and identified on the Forest Home tourist handouts as a destination to visit. The two little brothers, Eddie […]
Corporal, Company A, 2nd Illinois Infantry, Spanish American War 8 September 1872 – 16 February 1914 This headstone is in Section C (near where Beulah Corley is buried) which I’ve learned since profiling Beulah was used for simple, time-limited term burials until just after World War II. The last burials you can find there date […]
Lauritz Carlsen 24 April 1824 – 13 August 1893 Ingeborg Olsdr Carlsen 18 June 1826 – September 1878 Ingemann Martinus “Martin” Carlsen 20 July 1855 – 4 September 1890 Frank Emil Carlsen 7 September 1857 – 1 September 1918 Dora Maria Lootz Carlsen 11 May 1859 – 24 June 1942 I wanted to revisit this […]
Julius E. Heidenreich 17 May 1840 – 30 June 1927 Anna Margaretha Geisler Heidenreich 1839 – 7 December 1896 Johann Carl Heidenreich 1810 – 12 June 1889 Maria Elizabeth Heidenreich dates unknown Ida Margaretha Heidenreich 15 September 1868 – 28 October 1964 (possibly) Though I found a record that seems to indicate that Julius and […]
6 April 1900 – 16 December 1927 Harry Green was the second son born to Fred Green and Mary Reinke Green Ebertshauser Lau. Both his parents were German immigrants who’d arrived in their early teens. Mary was only 16 when they married while Fred was 22. At the time of the 1900 census, they were […]
Steve John, “King of the Gypsies*” 1861 (Serbia) – 26 February 1926 (Detroit) I really expected to learn nothing about this mausoleum, all bricked up and with such a simple name, but a clue in the form of a note on the findagrave.com record pointing out the cross on top of the mausoleum read “King […]
July 22, 1804, Paris, France — December 26, 1893, Houilles Schœlcher was the the son of a porcelain manufacturer (Marc Schœlcher, also listed on this headstone) whose political and social awakening took place while on a trip for the family business which took him throughout North America. It was on this trip that he first […]
11 June 1847 (Aldeburgh, Suffolk) – 5 August 1929 (London) Millicent Garrett Fawcett was a leader in the women’s suffrage movement in England, heading up the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), but most Americans, at least, won’t have heard of her. I consider myself not a scholar of the UK and US suffragist […]
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 […]