28 October 1902 – 19 November 1922 My friend and I visited this new-to-me cemetery yesterday and found many gorgeous monuments. Calvary is spectacular, situated literally across the street from Lake Michigan. Among all the really stunning headstones, monuments, and MASSIVE mausoleums, though, my favorite was the memorial to 20-year-old Anna Spahn. Anna had 4 […]
4 October 1905 – 9 December 1930 This is an odd one, and from the sparse information I have been able to find, I think there was likely a fairly dramatic backstory. Emilie Mantay is buried alone with her birth and death dates clearly marked and the inscription memorializing her as a dear sister. It […]
Laure de Girardin de Montgérald, the Comtesse de la Touche Widow of General Arthur Dillon 1700s – early 1800s Élisabeth Françoise “Fanny” Dillon, their daughter and wife of General Henri Gatien Bertrand (a close ally of Napoleon) 1780s – 1800s Going to be honest, I took these pictures for the cat, but she is sitting […]