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1894 Obituaries: November 10
According to the front page of the November 10, 1894 issue of the Chicago Daily News, Mrs. DeGan fell over a stair railing and died. (It would be nice to know her first name, wouldn’t it?) I wasn’t able to locate a death record on FamilySearch for this poor woman:…
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1887 Obituaries: March 1
From the front page of the March 1, 1887 issue of the Chicago Daily News; “ALLEN-At 734 Hinman-st., ALICE, daughter of Gerald and Margaret Allen, aged 3 months and 13 days. Funeral Wednesday, at 10:30 a.m., by carriages to Calvary.” “ANDREWS-At 537 31st-st., Feb. 28, Miss CARRIE FANGMEYER, daughter of…
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Fun with Genealogy Files Part 1
Mr. W2L4A and I downsized earlier this year. Our smaller home came equipped with a smaller space for storing genealogy records. Okay. This is the perfect opportunity to tackle overflowing files I’ve been meaning to get to for years. And make liberal use of cloud storage. And arrange my genealogy files…
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1894 Obituaries: November 5
Julius Pinkler died November 5, 1894 in a fire in F.C. Wings’ printing office: The following obituaries appeared under “deaths’ in the November 5, 1894 issue of the Chicago Daily News, page 7; Bessie Ament, Eddie Bowman, Alice Loretta Gorey, Mary Halpin (nee Crotty), Mrs. Salome Hiller, Dominick Hagarty, Mary Hoag,…
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15 Cemetery Kit Must Haves
My husband and I shared the cemetery kit I mentioned here. It worked well if we were graving together or close to the car, but that isn’t always the case. When we are searching for a grave, we generally divide and conquer. “I’ll walk the rows on the left if you…
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1894 Obituaries: October 30
The following deaths were listed on page 2 of the October 30, 1894 issue of the Chicago Daily News: Owen F. Casey (Baby Boy) Haley Esther Lillian Hegberg Additional deaths were reported on page 7 of the October 30, 1894 issue of the…
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Touring Chicago’s Oak Woods Cemetery
Timing is everything. Rough draft plans for a mid-October road trip were on the table. Chicago, Door County Wisconsin, and Mackinac Island Michigan were the top contenders. I was Google-ing our options when I saw the “Civil War to Civil Rights” tour offered by the Chicago Architecture Foundation. At Oak…
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Sewing for Halloween
Halloween preparation used to take more time, but was much more fun!
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1894 Obituaries: October 25
The following deaths were reported on page 8 of the October 25, 1894 issue of the Chicago Daily News: Ellen Armstrong (nee Lynch) Amy L. Baxter Mary Boyle (nee Norton) James C. Carmody Joseph Falk Thomas Gleeson Margrett Kressler (nee Cottor) Joseph T. Leonard Mary Luebke Julius Mandelbaum Ronald B.…
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