29 July 1912 – 6 August 1947 For this #ImmortalBeloved, we’re in a bit more of a modern context as Ruth was born in the 20th century. She was the daughter of Illinois natives who were themselves the children of German immigrants. She and her only sibling, brother Harold, both completed high school as did […]
27 February 1883 – 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 […]
Augusta Blum Sperling March 1844 – 1926 Selma Anna Sperling 1872, Germany – 12 October 1911 Ida Sperling 1876, Michigan – 7 June 1893, Chicago Oscar Sperling September 1879, Michigan – 10 June 1904 Concordia appears to be a rather medium-sized cemetery. findagrave.com lists 35.5K entries for it, but in spite of that, if I […]
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 […]
24 August 1852 – 19 April 1919 Emilie was a German immigrant who first came to the US before 1880 and worked as a servant for Henry (a grocer) and Louisa Juergens and their children. This got a bit confused later as she apparently returned to Germany at some point before 1890 and then came […]
Hedwig A. “Hattie” Korn 13 May 1891 – 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 […]
Marie Serritello (Mary Serritella) 4 Dec 1908 – 9 May 1917 This one is confusing because the name is spelled differently on the death record and that led to someone appending pictures of this headstone to the @findagrave record of a similarly-named young woman who died in her 20s. 8-year-old Marie’s record is under the spelling […]
1 November 1890 – 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 […]
Three generations are interred in this mausoleum, following the maternal line. There is space for two more but the top two niches are currently uninscribed, and with the most recent interment dating only to 2014, if another generation is destined to join their ancestors, it may be many, many years before they do. The oldest […]
5 March 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 […]