August 17, 1902 – May 8, 1913 When I chose a photo of this headstone as the icon for my instagram, I had no idea how it would tie into the other stories I would discover in my research. At the time, it was just a lovely headstone that I’d taken a lot of pictures […]
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 […]
1 December 1914* – 14 June 1983 Chuck Magid was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but was attracted by the spotlights from a young age. We first encounter him stepping foot into the US to see a show in Detroit just after his nineteenth birthday, a short visit but perhaps an important one in his life, […]
May 30, 1914 – April 26, 1920 What fascinates me about this headstone is the note above little Ruth’s name, “Erected by Mary J. Gordon.” It seems so odd to see this. The Plath family does not seem to have been poor or struggling. Their oldest son George was already buried nearby by the time […]
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 […]