24 December 1777 – 16 November 1850 Menagerist This headstone is very sweet and might make you think kindly of the person it immortalizes, but George Wombwell was no champion of animal welfare. Wombwell was a shoemaker from Essex who stumbled into exotic-animal-collecting when he bought two boa constrictors on the London docks and started […]
Carl Raths 28 Mar 1842 (Germany) – 16 Apr 1927 Augusta Staatz Raths 10 May 1856 – 6 Dec 1918 Frieda Aff 10 Sep 1876 – 15 Aug 1962 Charles Aff 11 Feb 1870 – 25 Dec 1945 Clara Schmidtke 8 Mar 1898 – 13 Feb 1950 William Schmidtke, Sr. 27 Feb 1897 – 13 […]
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 […]
Elizabeth “Betty” Rakow 12 November 1906 – 24 July 1915 Maria Auguste Louise “Augusta” Schwahn Wiese 21 January 1850 – 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 […]