On the first full day of the last big trip I’ve taken so far, my hosts planned a somewhat local outing into Bedfordshire for pub food, ice cream, and a visit to what was once the headquarters of the Panacea Society and is now a museum. I was still a bit jet-lagged and not quite […]
4 May 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 […]
31 October 1876 – 24 August 1898 I’ve seen Spanish-American War headstones before, but they were more traditional military-issue. There are at least 2 like this one at Calvary and both are for young men who died in Cuba. The epitaph inscribed on Eugene’s beautiful marker is “He gave his life for love of his […]
12 April 1844 (Yorkshire, England) – 22 June 1928 (Williamsport, PA) The Lovell family plot at Bluff City is a collection of simple stone markers, but standing at its corner is a small, distinctive cross that marks Eliza Ann Hadwen and Vincent Smith Lovell’s resting place. Eliza Ann was an English immigrant and Vincent was […]
Forest Home (formerly German Waldheim) Cemetery Dedicated in 1893; Designated a US National Historic Landmark on and listed on the US National Register of Historic Places 18 February 1997 Every time I go to Forest Home, I photograph the monument. It’s beautiful and usually has some flowers or other remembrance left on its dais. If […]
20 September 1895 (Grace, Mississippi) – 24 January 1957 (Chicago) Wagoner in Company “B” of the 329th Labor Battalion which shipped out from Hoboken, NJ on 26 August 1918, Robert W. Kelsey, Company Commander Willie was one of the younger of seven children (of fourteen born) of John F. and Carrie Richards. The Richards had a […]