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 […]
Thomas A. and Laura E. (Frary) Munshaw, married 1892 Frederick A. and Mildred A. (Lawson) Munshaw, married 1903 The two couples entombed in this mausoleum are connected through brothers Tom and Fred. Tom, born in 1867 in Toronto was four years older than Fred who was born in 1871 in Elgin, IL. Both sons married […]
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 […]
19 September 1841 – 18 February 1928 Hattie was born in Ohio but met and married her husband Samuel Klump Martin — a successful lumber executive — in Wisconsin. Two years after their marriage, they moved to Chicago where their five children were born: Elmer, Wilton, Marion, Samuel, and Walter. In 1896, Samuel passed away. […]
Alexander L. “Alex” Dupke 21 August 1893 – 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 […]
28 October 1900 – 16 August 1920 Violet was born on her mother’s 22nd birthday, and she would be her parents’ (Caroline “Carrie” Kepschull and Joseph “Jack Blank” Blankenstein) only child. Carrie has differing information on the public records about her place of birth, but she was either born in Illinois or immigrated as an […]
Edward “Eddie” Grimms 25 Mar 1892 — 24 Jul 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 […]
Helena Pittelkow 5 September 1893 — 24 July 1915 Meta Zopke 25 April 1892 — 24 July 1915 Hedwig “Hattie” Zopke 5 April 1895 — 24 July 1915 Meta and Hedwig were sisters, and Helena was the little sister of their older brother William’s wife Minnie. All boarded the Eastland bound for the Western Electric […]
This stunning monument marks the Cummings family plot in the Fairlawn section at Graceland. Patriarch Columbus R. Cummings (1834 – 1897) — another of the Gilded Age tycoons whose monuments dot the cemetery’s landscape — came to Chicago from New York as a young man and went to work for Potter Palmer (whose spectacular monument […]