William and Nettie (Campbell) Ransford Though both were born in New York, William (1821-1902) and Nettie (1838-1928) met and married in Nebraska where Nettie was a teacher and where William’s business had taken him. They had a daughter named Louise (1859-1861) who died just shy of her 2nd birthday. They later moved to LaPorte, Indiana […]
Gustav Bohn (1827-1892) immigrated to the US at some point prior to 1854 when he married Julia Winterwerber (1830-1906) in Cuyahoga, Ohio. The couple later moved to Kentucky where in spite of having two young sons at home, Gustav enlisted and served in the 55th Kentucky Mounted Infantry (Union) as a 1st Lieutenant. By 1870, […]
April 25, 1834 – March 25, 1887 When I first saw this marker — which was my favorite of those I photographed at Crown Hill — I misread the eroded inscription and thought it was for a young teen. But Charles was born in 1834 in Germany and died in 1887 of typhoid fever, making […]
1 April 1897 – 30 September 1924 Philip was born in 1897 in Chicago and fought in World War I. Unfortunately, Philip had tuberculosis and was suffering from an acute case even while serving. After he returned to civilian life, he married Martha Schmidt, probably around 1923, and together they had one child, Marcella, who […]
On the first full day of the last big trip I’ve taken so far, my hosts planned a somewhat local outing into Bedfordshire for pub food, ice cream, and a visit to what was once the headquarters of the Panacea Society and is now a museum. I was still a bit jet-lagged and not quite […]
Charles Jerold Hull 18 March 1820 – 12 February 1889 Helen Culver 23 Mar 1832 – 19 Aug 1925 Charles Jerold Hull was what could be termed a self-made millionaire, making his fortune in real-estate in both Chicago and across the US. According to the Tribune in his 14th of February 1889 obituary, his father […]
15 March 1880 – 25 October 1931 This article was originally posted on May 15, 2022. I was contacted by Anna’s grandchildren and given additional information and clarification which I’ve used to annotate this article, while leaving my erroneous conclusions and conjectures in place. Anna Blau was born in Galicia which seems to now be […]
1 July 1899 – 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 […]
15 September 1883 – 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 […]
Jeanette “Jeanne” Tarcov 9 November 1916 – 10 September 1940 Jeanne was the middle child of six born to Nathan and Mary (Gordik) Tarcov. She’s buried bside her closest-in-age sister Gussie, who died six months before she was born. According to the 1940 census, taken in April of that year, all the siblings still lived […]