20 August 1894 – 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 […]
Emma Wedde Kramp 24 August 1877 (unknown) – 27 February 1905 (Chicago) Richard Otto Kramp 5 August 1878 (Michrow, Prussia) – May 1964 (Chicago) Emma L. Giese Raum Kramp 3 August 1877 (Chicago) – 9 December 1935 (Chicago) This is the kind of discovery I love as a researcher, even though the discovery is pretty […]
26 December 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 […]
19 October 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 […]
Carl and Marie Wilcke Teltiz met, married, and started their family in Brandenburg, Germany. They suffered at least one stillbirth in their first years of marriage, but by the time they emigrated to the US, the had one baby daughter, Bertha. In all, the couple had ten children with only three living to adulthood. Of […]
This gorgeous headstone is set in the middle of Section 9, somewhat hidden. I think I’ve seen it before, but until I got up close, it didn’t pop for me. The family was originally from a part of the Austrian Empire that is in modern Romania. They emigrated from their homeland in 1905, after all […]
Emma Bülow Moese 4 December 1885 – 3 March 1959 Richard Conrad Moese 8 June 1899 – 20 August 1977 Wilhelm Bülow 15 March 1854 – 6 February 1925 Hulda Zinke Bülow 16 August 1855 – 1 May 1934 There are only a few mausoleums at Concordia, and I’ve documented all but three of them […]
17 August 1893 – 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 […]
Alma Zielske 26 October 1893 – 24 July 1915 Lillian “Lillie” Prochnow 21 February 1898 – 24 July 1915 (several records say Lillie was born in 1897, but her birth certificate says 1898) The Eastland, one of five chartered excursion boats meant to ferry employees, their families and friends from Chicago over to the Michigan […]
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 […]