Amelia Louise Albertina Hering Farrell 16 December 1895 – 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 […]
Dora (Hoffmeyer) Jarsombeck Block 1833 – 9 January 1892 Dora is apparently buried alone in the middle of one of the quietest corners of the cemetery. She was born in Germany around 1833. She married Ludwig Jarsombeck, and together they had at least four children, but he likely died around 1873 when his youngest child […]
Hedwig “Hattie” Steffen 21 November 1890 – 15 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 […]
12 May 1887 – 2 July 1897 The grave of Emma Ochsner is in the old single graves section of the cemetery, according to her FindAGrave.com listing. She died at the age of 10 while watching a funeral procession when “she took hold of a guy wire of an electric light line…” Her father was […]
20 July 1898 — 24 July 1915 This article was researched and written for the Eastland Disaster Historical Society and was originally posted on their Facebook page. Please see the informational page and the Eastland Disaster category on this site for more articles and information on this topic. This version has been edited from the […]
23 December 1884/5 – 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 […]
Mollie E. (Ehrlich) Opper 1896 – 8 August 1924 Mollie was born in Russia and came to the US with her family in 1907. On the 1910 census, she was listed as the oldest of 4 surviving children (of 8 born) of Joseph and Goldie (Chodor) Ehrlich. In September 1912 when she was still quite […]
19 August 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 […]
4 February 1895 – 12 August 1942 Every now and then, I come across census or death records that indicate a person was in Manteno, Illinois, and I’ve learned that almost always means something pretty bad if they had previously been living in Chicago as that was the home of the notorious Manteno State Mental […]
Rose Netsky Berger 15 September 1898 – 15 January 1925 Rose was born in Russia, probably close to Poland (or what was then the German Empire). Her family immigrated to the US in 1904 where her father worked as a tailor. She was the oldest daughter of 8 children who survived to adulthood (of 12 […]