Jeanette “Jeanne” Tarcov 9 November 1916 – 10 September 1940 Jeanne was the middle child of six born to Nathan and Mary (Gordik) Tarcov. She’s buried bside her closest-in-age sister Gussie, who died six months before she was born. According to the 1940 census, taken in April of that year, all the siblings still lived […]
7 November 1828 – 19 August 1895 Leonard Volk was born in Wellston, New York. He got his start as a marble cutter in his father‘s business before deciding to become a fine-art sculptor. He studied in Rome to perfect his art. After returning to the US, he helped to establish the Chicago Academy of […]
Lillie (1887 – 1910) was the oldest of four children born to William H. and Minna (Goldmeier) Falkenstein. William was a butcher, and Lillie worked as a hairdresser, which likely explains her very elaborate coiffure in her cameo portrait. She was predeceased by her little sister, Ruth, who was only seven when she died. William […]
Julia Barbara Budilovsky Machova 17 May 1877 – 2 August 1904 Lillian “Lily” Budilovsky 13 January 1902 – 10 March 1923 Julia was the oldest child of 9 born to Vaclav and Johanna Budilovsky. By 1900, one of the children had died, but the other 8 were all living with their parents, and 23-year-old Julia […]
16 March 1851 – 18 April 1915 Mary was born in Ireland as was her eventual husband John O’Brien. They met and married in the US in 1871, after he had immigrated to get into the lumber trade around 1867. He arrived as a recent graduate of Christian Brothers College in Dublin (which was a […]
Joseph “Josie” Lyon 1882 – 4 December 1891 Josie was the youngest child of George and Catherine (Katie) Murphy Lyon. George had emigrated from Ireland at the age of fifteen, all by himself. He married the 10-years-younger Katie in 1877, 15 years after his arrival. On the 1880 census, his occupation was saloon keeper, so […]
3 August 1823 – 3 September 1887 James was born in County Cavan, Ireland, and emigrated at the age of 20, shortly before the Great Famine. He first went to Ontario, Canada, where he met and married Margaret MacArow (1824 – 1895) in 1845. A son named Hugh was born in Ontario, but around 1850, […]
19 September 1904 – 6 September 1922 Molly was the older of David and Sarah Shifrisa Walovitz’s two daughters. Sarah lost two other children prior to 1910. Molly died just two weeks’ shy of her 18th birthday. The family arrived in 1906 or 1907 or possibly both. On the 1910 census, Sarah and Molly are […]
Karel Vaclav Janovsky (1876 – 1962) emigrated from Bohemia at the age of 14. He used “Johns” as an Anglicized surname but over time (and likely due to finding the tight-knit Bohemian community in Chicago) used both names to the point that he hyphenated them on the family mausoleum. He married first wife Mary Theresa […]
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 […]