This secret society, founded in London in 1781, once had upwards of 35,000 members worldwide but seems to have gone extinct. They used faux druidic symbolism and names but had no historic or religious observance relationship to the ancient Celts. Favorite fact: their local organizations were called groves! Their dedicated section in Forest Home was […]
R. Herman Netzel October 18, 1873 – April 1, 1948 Mary J. (Haack) Netzel May 8, 1876 – September 23, 1940 Henry W. Netzel April 24, 1898 – December 28, 1966 Mary E. Netzel November 17, 1898 – July 3, 1982 Herman Netzel was born in Germany in 1873 and according to his obituary had […]
Peter Peterson July 20, 1839 – August 15, 1916 (aged 77) Anna (Miller) Peterson (married in 1868) February 3, 1843 – December 31, 1879 (aged 36) Bertha (Rathke) Peterson (married in 1881) December 11, 1846 – September 25, 1930 (aged 83) (reposted from @postsinthegraveyard, January 10, 2021) After seeing a picture of this absolutely stunning […]
April 30, 1893 – July 6, 1951 (original research inspired by Grunow Mausoleum entry on @postsinthegraveyard) William Carl August Grunow was born to a German-immigrant father and Illinois-born mother at the end of the nineteenth century. His early life was marked by a great deal of loss. He was the oldest of five siblings, but […]
April 29, 1885 – October 15, 1910 (age 25) Mary was born in Chicago to German immigrant parents John and Maria Wendt. She was baptised on May 21, 1885, at Trinity Lutheran in Chicago, and her baptismal name was Maria Sophia Wilhelmine. In 1900, she was living at home with her parents and four brothers […]
Louis Fred Melcher February 23, 1870 – January 18, 1941 Wilhelmine “Minnie” (Klaves) Melcher 1870 – 1959 William “Willie” Melcher 1906 – March 10, 1909 Charles Melcher 1926 (reposted from @postsinthegraveyard, January 5, 2021) The research on this one was complicated by the fact that there were two couples named Louis & Minnie Melcher who […]
Otto J. Woldt November 13, 1875 – November 13, 1938 Ida (Soeldner) Woldt October 1882 – July 1949 (reposted from @postsinthegraveyard with some edits, January 2, 2021) Sometimes I’m not sure looking through my pictures why I photographed certain headstones, but researching the Woldts turned out to be very interesting. Otto Woldt was born on […]
Carl Joerndt December 24, 1826 – August 11, 1902 Henrietta (Brunnengräber) Joerndt March 17, 1832 – February 4, 1913 (reposted with edits from @postsinthegraveyard, December 29, 2020) Carl and Henrietta Joerndt were German immigrants who arrived in the US in 1867. They were married in Schwerin in Germany in 1853 when both were in their […]
(reposted from @postsinthegraveyard, December 20, 2020) I have gone past this beautiful family plot border monument countless times and only yesterday noticed the little gargoyle faces in the four corners of the cross. Of course, they aren’t gargoyles — they are the traditional symbolic representations of the Four Evangelists, the authors of the Gospels, with […]
Samuel Fallows DD, LLD 1835 – 1922 Lucy Bethia (Huntington) Fallows 1840 – 1916 (reposted from @postsinthegraveyard, December 20, 2020) This memorial is not a gravestone. Reverend Fallows and his wife are both interred in Massachusetts where she is from. This is a memorial stone erected after his death to honor his many accomplishments primarily […]