28 May 1898 – 26 January 1917 According to findagrave.com, G. Harold Watts (1898 – 1917), whose name is over the door of this mausoleum, died in a car accident at the age of only 18 years old. Even more tragically, Harold was his parents’ only child. His father George (1862 – 1935) was born […]
29 November 1898 — 24 July 1915 George was the second youngest child and oldest son of German immigrants George Sr and Auguste Jaeschke Theede. The Theedes were lucky for their time with all their children surviving childhood. George had four older sisters and a little brother. He and his sisters were all born close […]
Lillian “Eliza” Schultz Davis 9 September 1894 – 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 […]
Ernest F. Ahnert 2 April 1883 – 11 March 1953 Mary A. Venzel Ahnert 18 May 1882 – 3 October 1964 This is my last mausoleum from Concordia and the newest, built in 1948, the same year Ernest retired from his life-long job of being a streetcar motorman in Chicago. It’s impossible to imagine that […]
Louise M. “Lizzie” Radoll 18 October 1889 – 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 […]
12 April 1844 (Yorkshire, England) – 22 June 1928 (Williamsport, PA) The Lovell family plot at Bluff City is a collection of simple stone markers, but standing at its corner is a small, distinctive cross that marks Eliza Ann Hadwen and Vincent Smith Lovell’s resting place. Eliza Ann was an English immigrant and Vincent was […]
Bertha Selig 31 March 1870 — 24 July 1915 Frank Selig 18 December 1892 — 24 July 1915 Edward Selig 21 January 1897 — 24 July 1915 Louise Schmidt 16 May 1896 — 24 July 1915 The Eastland, one of five chartered excursion boats meant to ferry employees, their families and friends from Chicago over […]
20 August 1894 – 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 […]
Emma Wedde Kramp 24 August 1877 (unknown) – 27 February 1905 (Chicago) Richard Otto Kramp 5 August 1878 (Michrow, Prussia) – May 1964 (Chicago) Emma L. Giese Raum Kramp 3 August 1877 (Chicago) – 9 December 1935 (Chicago) This is the kind of discovery I love as a researcher, even though the discovery is pretty […]
26 December 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 […]