Jennie Pulver Tobias passed away heartbreakingly young at only 34 years of age, and this loss was obviously greatly felt by her family. The mausoleum was purchased and erected to entomb this lost daughter and wife and the epitaph over the door is mourning her loss. According to findagrave.com, the entire Tobias family is interred […]
Lars Schmidt 1886 – 14 September 1890 Eddie Schmidt 28 April 1888 – 28 August 1890 Rudolph Schmidt 19 September 1891 – before 1900 Baby Schmidt 1890s This little headstone is quite famous, mentioned in guide books and identified on the Forest Home tourist handouts as a destination to visit. The two little brothers, Eddie […]
June 27, 1869 (Russia) – May 14, 1940* (Toronto) Dubbed “Red Emma” by the press and called “the most dangerous woman in America,” by J. Edgar Hoover, Emma Goldman was a tireless radical activist whose influence is felt to this day. Emma Goldman was born in Kaunas, Russian Empire (which is now Lithuania) to Jewish […]
August Soeldner 29 September 1844 – 20 April 1929 Louise Soeldner 24 October 1849 – 19 May 1921 The Soeldners were German immigrants who came to the US as young people and met and married in Chicago. The couple had seven children, three suriving them. Two sons tragically died as young adults and two daughters […]
Forest Home (formerly German Waldheim) Cemetery Dedicated in 1893; Designated a US National Historic Landmark on and listed on the US National Register of Historic Places 18 February 1997 Every time I go to Forest Home, I photograph the monument. It’s beautiful and usually has some flowers or other remembrance left on its dais. If […]
Steve John, “King of the Gypsies*” 1861 (Serbia) – 26 February 1926 (Detroit) I really expected to learn nothing about this mausoleum, all bricked up and with such a simple name, but a clue in the form of a note on the findagrave.com record pointing out the cross on top of the mausoleum read “King […]
3 November 1905 – 9 May 1919 Charley Pochik was the youngest of three named children of Joseph and Elizabeth (Sebysten) Pochik, immigrants from Austria-Hungary. Joseph immigrated at the age of 31 in 1896 and Elizabeth immigrated at the age of 21 in 1900; the two married two years later in April 1902. They had […]
15 March 1909 – 4 March 1987 “Heroine in the Struggle” Born in New Orleans to a stalwart and vocal union man, Woods performed her first protest at the age of ten when she refused to sing the national anthem after she realized she and her siblings were forbidden to play in the park they […]
Wilhelmine “Minnie” Parman Hagemeister 30 November 1864 – 21 June 1940 Wilhelm “William” Hagemeister 4 July 1862 – 7 July 1938 The monument for the Hagemeister family in Forest Home is striking in that it seems to portray a real person. The statue topping their monument is of an adult woman, somewhere in her middle […]
Grace Palmer Buell Carr 12 September 1870 – 1 October 1922 Grace’s story is as mysterious as her mausoleum which sits back in the hillside on Mausoleum Row at Forest Home Cemetery. Her life story has only a few random signposts to illuminate what I think must have been a pretty interesting life. Grace and […]