Cecelia Tang 1930 – 2013 Cyril Chung Ying Tang 1930 – 2018 This isn’t exactly a mausoleum, but I’m not sure what else you would call it except for incredibly tranquil and beautiful. Mr. Tang died in 2018 and I believe that this must have just been finished as the landscaping isn’t completed yet. It […]
Steve John, “King of the Gypsies*” 1861 (Serbia) – 26 February 1926 (Detroit) I really expected to learn nothing about this mausoleum, all bricked up and with such a simple name, but a clue in the form of a note on the findagrave.com record pointing out the cross on top of the mausoleum read “King […]
Robert H. Piratzky 27 May 1835 (Prussia) – 19 September 1912 Agnes Frinier Piratzky 29 June 1841 (Quebec) – 19 February 1925 Mary Ann Frinier Bouchard 5 July 1836 (Quebec) – 4 March 1913 Robert Piratzky was a successful photographer, lithographer, and engraver who immigrated from Prussia in July 1857. He met Agnes Frinier sometime […]
Edwin J Stubbs 22 April 1867* – 9 April 1934 (at University Hospital in Augusta, Georgia) (The Honorable E.J. Stubbs, Knight of St. Gregory) Alma Piratsky Stubbs 11 January 1876* – 20 January 1959 (date of internment; could not find an exact date of death) The youngest surviving child of a British-born father Robert J. […]
11 September 1870 – 2 June 1928 The story of John Lavezzorio was fairly easy to discover as his death was written up in the Chicago Tribune, and unfortunately it is a tragic one. Lavezzorio was born in Genoa, Italy, to a family of laborers but was brought to Chicago by his father at the […]
Mary Gentile 8 December 1863 – 30 June 1951 Michele Gentile 4 December 1865 – 4 February 1930 I was not able to find out much about this couple as they don’t show up in the census or any other public records that I can be certain are referring to them until the 1930 census. […]
Johann “John” Beutner 23 March 1849 – 14 March 1923 Sophia Elizabeth Boldt Beutner 7 January 1850 – 24 November 1927 Maria “Mary” Beutner Holpuch Kojisek (Kozisek) 3 August 1874 – 28 December 1957 Johann “John Thomas” Beutner 15 February 1877 – 18 November 1925 Karl “Charles William” Beutner 28 September 1886 – 18 February […]
Grace Palmer Buell Carr 12 September 1870 – 1 October 1922 Grace’s story is as mysterious as her mausoleum which sits back in the hillside on Mausoleum Row at Forest Home Cemetery. Her life story has only a few random signposts to illuminate what I think must have been a pretty interesting life. Grace and […]
William Ganschow 25 December 1843* – 6 February 1904 Carolina Consoer Ganschow January 1848 – 5 December 1924 I became interested in William Ganschow and his family when I discovered his daughters’ stories while researching the Moldenhauer Mausoleum last week ago. His mausoleum is far more mysterious than that of his daughters, grandson, granddaughter, and […]
Dr. Gustav H. Moldenhauer May 28, 1874 – May 17, 1952 Alma Ganschow Moldenhauer February 2, 1879 – May 25, 1963 Dr. William J. Moldenhauer November 7, 1881 – June 30, 1942 Lina Ganschow Moldenhauer June 8, 1882 – May 16, 1915 William Moldenhauer May 16, 1915 – September 27, 1915 Sylvia D. Biermann Kummerow […]