Thomas A. and Laura E. (Frary) Munshaw, married 1892 Frederick A. and Mildred A. (Lawson) Munshaw, married 1903 The two couples entombed in this mausoleum are connected through brothers Tom and Fred. Tom, born in 1867 in Toronto was four years older than Fred who was born in 1871 in Elgin, IL. Both sons married […]
Hedwig “Hattie” Steffen 21 November 1890 – 15 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 […]
Conrad Braun was born in Germany in 1835 and immigrated to the US in 1856 where he tried his hand at many different things throughout his life, mostly successfully. He initially trained as a carpenter, later worked with marble, and spent his later years working as a vintner. He had six children (total) with two […]
12 May 1887 – 2 July 1897 The grave of Emma Ochsner is in the old single graves section of the cemetery, according to her FindAGrave.com listing. She died at the age of 10 while watching a funeral procession when “she took hold of a guy wire of an electric light line…” Her father was […]
17 July 1895 – 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 […]