Potter Palmer 20 May 1826 – 4 May 1902 Bertha Honoré Palmer 22 May 1849 – 5 May 1918 There are quite good biographies of both Potter and Bertha on their @findagrave pages and both have Wikipedia entries as well (Potter Palmer – Wikipedia | Bertha Palmer – Wikipedia), so I’ll just do a highlight […]
7 March 1930 – 2 September 1937 Ruth was the oldest daughter of Henry (1898 – 1981) and Sadie (1904 – 1992) Wolfe Greenberg. She was born on the west side of Chicago, and sadly, she died there just seven and a half years later. She had an older brother named Leonard who died in […]
Helena Pittelkow 5 September 1893 — 24 July 1915 Meta Zopke 25 April 1892 — 24 July 1915 Hedwig “Hattie” Zopke 5 April 1895 — 24 July 1915 Meta and Hedwig were sisters, and Helena was the little sister of their older brother William’s wife Minnie. All boarded the Eastland bound for the Western Electric […]
Carrie Eliza Anderson Getty 1843 – 24 February 1890 Henry Harrison Getty 20 September 1836 – 28 March 1919 Alice Eliza Getty 15 October 1868 – 12 June 1946 There is a thorough write-up about this mausoleum on Carrie Eliza Anderson Getty’s findagrave.com page as well as a Wikipedia entry dedicated to the mausoleum which […]
This interesting monument belongs to Frederick Seymour Winston (1856 – 1909) and his wife Mary Ada (Fountain) Winston (1858 – 1919). Frederick was a lawyer specializing in corporate law who made his name working with a few railroad companies as their General Solicitor. Though they were based in Chicago, both died in California. They first […]
3 August 1823 – 3 September 1887 James was born in County Cavan, Ireland, and emigrated at the age of 20, shortly before the Great Famine. He first went to Ontario, Canada, where he met and married Margaret MacArow (1824 – 1895) in 1845. A son named Hugh was born in Ontario, but around 1850, […]
19 September 1904 – 6 September 1922 Molly was the older of David and Sarah Shifrisa Walovitz’s two daughters. Sarah lost two other children prior to 1910. Molly died just two weeks’ shy of her 18th birthday. The family arrived in 1906 or 1907 or possibly both. On the 1910 census, Sarah and Molly are […]
Karel Vaclav Janovsky (1876 – 1962) emigrated from Bohemia at the age of 14. He used “Johns” as an Anglicized surname but over time (and likely due to finding the tight-knit Bohemian community in Chicago) used both names to the point that he hyphenated them on the family mausoleum. He married first wife Mary Theresa […]
10 November 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 […]
15 May 1895 – 26 September 1918 As his headstone says, Alex was killed in action in the Argonne Forest. Devastatingly, the headstone says, “in World War,” his parents who’d had this inscription made unaware that they would both live to see a second one. Don and Bessie married in 1881 in Odessa – the […]