The Sisters

In May I visited Bohemian National Cemetery in Chicago. It’s an amazing place with winding lanes, mature shade trees, and lots of unique and interesting headstones. To me, the most interesting feature about Bohemian National was the sheer number of memorial portraits. This is the first cemetery I’ve been to where so many headstones had pictures of people on them. It…

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 north side of West Peterson…