Category: Find A Grave
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Who Was Miriam?
She lived just seventeen years. Miriam was laid to rest in the Mauston [Wisconsin] Cemetery. The monument marking her grave bears the sentiment of someone who must have loved her very much. Yet with no surname on her headstone, Miriam’s story feels incomplete. A guess has been made. But we…
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Carl and Anna Plum at Oak Woods Cemetery
While I was drafting this post, I clicked on Anna’s Find A Grave memorial to re-read her obituary. What a lovely surprise it was to see a volunteer photographer had added a headstone photo for Anna and her husband Carl! Many thanks to Andy Gappa, a Find A Graver extraordinaire!
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Honoring Jacob Mahlon Dixon
Jacob is buried in section 28 of Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago. I was touched by the sentiment engraved on his headstone:
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Elk Grove Cemetery
Husband and I had just realized we missed a turn on the way back to our hotel when we saw Elk Grove Cemetery. This little cemetery appears to have been randomly dropped near a busy intersection of multi-lane roads and an expressway off-ramp. So imagine our surprise when we read…
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Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum
My maternal grandparents, John George Walton and Harriet Kathlyn (nee Tolf) Walton are buried at Rosehill. And my maternal grandmother’s maternal grandparents Peter August Tolf and Augusta Sophia (nee Landstrom) Tolf are buried at Rosehill. None of them are buried in the main cemetery. They are all in the separate section on the…
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Norwood Park Home Cemetery
North Newark Avenue (aka the gravel road) in Saint Adalbert Catholic Cemetery in Niles does more than separate one section of the cemetery from another (St. Adalbert is also known as Old Bohemian Cemetery, Old Polish Cemetery and Saint Stanislaus Cemetery). When we drove south on Newark, we stumbled upon…
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Saint Adalbert Cemetery
Friday’s plans included lunch with an old friend who recently bought a condo in Andersonville. Google Maps showed two options from the hotel to my friend’s new place. One route would bring us within blocks of Saint Adalbert Cemetery in Niles. “Wanna leave a little early so we can stop…
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Mount Olive Cemetery
I received Marilyn Yalom‘s The American Resting Place as a gift some months ago. If you haven’t yet read this book, I encourage you to do so. Genealogists and historians alike will find many items of interest among the 320 pages of text. Pages 184 and 185 in particular piqued my…
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Acacia Park Cemetery
The drive to Chicago was overcast and drizzly. That evening tornadoes touched down in towns to the north and west of us. Our thoughts and prayers remain with the people affected by these devastating acts of nature. Day Two dawned sunny and warm. We were relieved as we had hoped…
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His Success is Written in Stone
John Kauffman’s daughter Maria Elizabeth married my 2nd great-grandmother’s brother Emile Schmitt in the 19th century. Emile became an executive in John’s business, the Kauffman Brewery. The brewery flourished making John, his partner, and many others in the business very wealthy men. John Kauffman rests in Cincinnati’s historic Spring Grove Cemetery across the…
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