Maria Carmela Russo born 23 May 1839, Laurenzana, Provincia di Potenza, Basilicata, Italy died 11 June 1898, Chicago There isn’t much to find out about Maria Carmela as she died in that census gap after 1880 and prior to the 1900 census (which is really quite a good one for fact-checking other records because it […]
16 March 1851 – 18 April 1915 Mary was born in Ireland as was her eventual husband John O’Brien. They met and married in the US in 1871, after he had immigrated to get into the lumber trade around 1867. He arrived as a recent graduate of Christian Brothers College in Dublin (which was a […]
1802 in Ireland – 17 July 1881 in Chicago Bridget Clark immigrated to the US from Ireland in 1865 with her young adult children: Patrick J., James, and Mary. Due to everyone’s ages and the lack of an inscription for a father Clark, I believe that he likely died prior to 1865. The 4 were […]
Joseph “Josie” Lyon 1882 – 4 December 1891 Josie was the youngest child of George and Catherine (Katie) Murphy Lyon. George had emigrated from Ireland at the age of fifteen, all by himself. He married the 10-years-younger Katie in 1877, 15 years after his arrival. On the 1880 census, his occupation was saloon keeper, so […]
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, […]
1 July 1864 – 21 February 1924 Annie was a teacher which is really the most surprising thing that I found in my research – that per early-century census records (and a couple other references in school-related documents at the time, mostly in lists), she had a husband, a child, and an occupation that she […]
Joseph & Adelaide Mazza Galli Joseph (1874 – 1935) was a candymaker in the early decades of 20th Century Chicago. He was from Italy, and Adelaide (1874 – 1939) was born in Chicago to Italian immigrant parents. They married in 1894 and seem to have been partners in business as well as in life. In […]
1864 – 5 January 1905 James had been a policeman for 14 years and had reached the rank of detective at the time of his death. He had married Mary Moroney (1865 – 1931) in 1884 and together they had four children, all of whom lived to adulthood: Thomas, John, Joseph (known as Dode), and […]
31 October 1876 – 24 August 1898 I’ve seen Spanish-American War headstones before, but they were more traditional military-issue. There are at least 2 like this one at Calvary and both are for young men who died in Cuba. The epitaph inscribed on Eugene’s beautiful marker is “He gave his life for love of his […]
1871 – 19 December 1898 Edward married Minnie E. Cronin in 1895, and together they had 2 sons: Edward Jr in 1897 who died in infancy and John Raymond, born 1898. Edward Sr. was a Chicago fireman with hook and ladder 11. At the age of only 27 years old, he was badly injured along […]