John Smith
John Smith was the son of John K. Smith and Eliza Smith. He and his brother Gerald are remembered for their Civil War Service with a brass plaque at the […]
John Smith was the son of John K. Smith and Eliza Smith. He and his brother Gerald are remembered for their Civil War Service with a brass plaque at the […]
Laura Thatcher Curtiss is buried in Main Street Cemetery with he husband Charles Curtiss whom she married in 1856 . Her mother Harriet Thatcher is also buried in the same
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Alice Kate Oldfield and mother Kate Dixon Oldfield share this same headstone as they died about one month apart from each other. Her father Richard Oldfield, who died two decades
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Catherine Wolff and Mitchell Heintz and were both born in Sessenheim, Alsace, France. They married there on October 26, 1830. The family immigrated with their nine children in the 1850s
Lisa Marie Farver, Patch Staff DOWNERS GROVE, IL — Recent renovations to the 1846 Blodgett House has earned Downers Grove Museum recognition from the Association of Midwest Museums (AMM). The
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Main St. Cemetery Marker: E12 We are unsure who was buried in this plot to the north of Nancy Foster’s headstone at this time. Perhaps future research will shed more
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By Darcel Rockett, Tina E. Akouris and Claire Malon, Chicago Tribune If you were paying attention in history class, you’ll recall the Underground Railroad wasn’t a railroad at all. Rather, it was
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Main St. Cemetery marker: N2 Johan Georg Sucher Elisabethe Gros Sucher
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Main St. Cemetery Marker: M3 Charles Meadal Dora Meadal
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Main St. Cemetery Marker: M1 Malcolm A. Blackburn Israel L. Blackburn Jr.
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