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Youngest and Beloved Son
The following obituaries were printed on the front page of the June 9, 1883 issue of the Chicago Daily News;
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Find A Grave is a Numbers Game; Family Trees
Genealogy clues abound in nearly every cemetery I visit. Sometimes immigration, relationship, and residency clues present themselves in abundance on just one headstone: At times, the overall layout of a family plot will reveal names and relationships: Sometimes the only record of a child who was born and died between censuses is found on…
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In the Morning Light
Early morning at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis offers some amazing views.
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Wednesday’s Child – Isabel E Moenke
Another darling girl rests a few steps from Edna Miriam Paul‘s final resting place in Chicago’s St Luke Cemetery. Isabel Moenke was born 31 July 1899, just in time to be recorded in the 1900 census. It was the only one in which she would appear. Her parents, Leo and Emma (nee Kaeding)…
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This Being Her First Birthday in Heaven
In Memoriam columns often contain the most personal notices on the obituary page of a newspaper. The column below, which first appeared on page 19 of the May 12, 1913 issue of the Chicago Daily News, is no exception: These columns remind me to go beyond the year of death when searching for…
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Wednesday’s Child – Frank S Howes
The epitaph on this headstone took my breath away. In the still morning air, the the loss this family endured was almost palpable. Frank’s headstone is surrounded by large trees in a lovely section of Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis. May he rest in peace.
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Monuments Carved and Uncarved
Monuments do more than just mark spaces in cemeteries. In Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis, Olaf, Christine and Effie Olsson rest near a large family monument with several meanings. The style itself – a stone that is half carved and half uncarved – symbolizes the transition from life to death. Closer inspection…
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The Little Chapel; A Cemetery Landmark
Discovering new-to-me cemeteries is high on my list of favorite things to do. Especially when I stumble upon something as lovely as The Little Chapel in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Janesville Wisconsin.
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A Small Stone with a Big Story
I stumbled upon a little headstone in Chicago’s Rosehill Cemetery in July 2015. I was surprised there wasn’t an existing memorial for this infant on Find A Grave. Because that little headstone is next to this: Who was Adam Schaaf? I wondered as I added a Find A Grave memorial for Baby Schaaf.…
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A Cemetery Paved with Good Intentions
It was a little disconcerting, but I was impressed. While I was photographing headstones for Find A Grave at Riverside Cemetery in Black River Falls Wisconsin, I was being watched. Not from afar, mind you. The same pickup truck meandered through the very sections I was in at least a dozen times…
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