Inez Margretta “Zeni” Lenz Mueller 8 December 1911 – 8 August 1992 I don’t usually do more recent burials, but I was so charmed by this headstone I wanted to research it a bit. And also, even though it doesn’t seem long ago to me, Zeni did pass away almost thirty years ago! Zeni was […]
James C. Justin, Jr. 4 November 1894 – 24 July 1915 Emily Mary Manthey 15 October 1892 – 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 […]
11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001 #TowelDay was started 20 years ago (25 May 2001) to commemorate Adams’ death and honor his work, particularly The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Adams is buried in Highgate East, his headstone a simple gray tablet with a jaunty placard labeled 42 for those in-the-know to appreciate. Fans […]
Andrew “Andy” Schatz 22 March 1885 – 9 March 1930 This headstone is from the “select singles“ section of the cemetery which I believe means that instead of a lot, you’re literally just buying one plot. There are a few areas where there are several people from the same family close to each other, but […]
Irwin Nagel May 1895 – 24 July 1915 (aged 20) Margaret Nagel December 1897 – 24 July 1915 (aged 17) 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 […]
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 […]
June 27, 1869 (Russia) – May 14, 1940* (Toronto) Dubbed “Red Emma” by the press and called “the most dangerous woman in America,” by J. Edgar Hoover, Emma Goldman was a tireless radical activist whose influence is felt to this day. Emma Goldman was born in Kaunas, Russian Empire (which is now Lithuania) to Jewish […]
21 September 1897 – 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 […]
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault 26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824 Géricault was an influential artist who was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement and is considered the first major painter of French Romanticism. Romanticism is a vast artistic movement that touched every corner of art and design throughout the early 1800s and […]