12 May 1887 — 18 June 1903 While working my way through this section, I came across this beautiful marker honoring a young man. His is the only name on the marker, though I believe his mother is buried with him (will need to check with the office on that at some point). Sadly as […]
The Rock family was a very small one for the time: just a mother, father, daughter, and son. According to mother Elsie on the 1910 census, she only had the two children, eldest Adelina in 1905 and youngest Earl in 1907. Father Paul worked in various professions related to home decor – painting and shade […]
Frank & Louisa (Mueller) Dietz Frank and Louisa were both born in 1867 and married in 1885. Tragically, Frank died in 1899 at just 31, leaving Louisa a widow with five surviving children of the six they had together: Emil, Emma, Mary, Frank Jr, and Louisa Jr. Per the 1900 census, the children’s ages ranged […]
8 Nov 1825 – 1 Jan 1904 Amy was one of 12 children born to Silas and Rebecca (Caughey) Fleming. Some family lore or his own tall-tales led to the local paper reporting that her father had immigrated from Ireland as a young man and fought in the War of 1812 (for the US) but […]
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 […]
30 July 1915 – 25 December 1938 Alice was the second oldest child of Hungarian immigrants Max and Fannie (Altman) Neuhauser. Her siblings were oldest sister Gladys and younger siblings Helen, Henry, and Doris (called Dolly). Both parents had immigrated with their families in 1906 and married six years later. Max worked as a trimmer […]
Lillie (1887 – 1910) was the oldest of four children born to William H. and Minna (Goldmeier) Falkenstein. William was a butcher, and Lillie worked as a hairdresser, which likely explains her very elaborate coiffure in her cameo portrait. She was predeceased by her little sister, Ruth, who was only seven when she died. William […]
Carl Frederick Jaekel (1823 – 1882) was a tailor and patriarch of a large family, many of whom are buried on this extensive family lot. In pride of place on the shared marker are the names and dates of his second oldest daughter Paulina and her husband Nickol Hoelzel. Carl and his wife Ernestine (Knopf; […]
4 October 1896 – 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 […]