Month: August 2011
Spotlight Sunday – Elisabeth (Lachowski) Ostrowski
Name: Elisabeth Lachowski (Lachovsky / Lachowska, etc)
Birthday: about 1867
Parents: Joseph Lachowski & Elisabeth Kunath
Siblings: August, John & Joseph
Relationship: married to John Ostrowski, mother of 7 children
Children: Joseph, John, Anthony, Lillian, Marie, George & baby boy
Hometown: Prussia Germany
Immigration: 1875 aboard “Cimbria” from Hamburg
Last Known Residence: Detroit, Michigan
Education: unable to read or write
Occupation: worked as a tailoress in 1880
Church: St. Albertus Church – Detroit, Michigan
Death: August 28, 1897 in childbirth delivering a stillborn son, 30 years old
Cemetery: Mt. Elliott Cemetery, Detroit Michigan
Relationship to Me: 2nd great-grandmother
Tombstone Tuesday – Anna Maria (Aschmann) Kessler
Anna Maria Aschmann Kessler died January 28, 1903 – 11 months after her beloved husband Christopher. She rests beside him in Mt. Elliott Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan. It is not clear on large their grave markers are as they had sunk a couple inches beneath the earth. I had pulled away the grass to photograph the stone, but if there is more further down I did not capture it. (3rd great-grandmother) (clicking on the photo makes it larger)
Spotlight Sunday – Martin Ostrowski
Name: Martin Ostrowski
Birthday: November 5, 1830
Parents: Casimir Ostrowski & Marianna Hert
Siblings: Eva, Joseph, John, Susanna, Frank, Marianna, Anton, Paul, Jacob & August
Relationship: married to Elizabeth Kolpe, father of 7 known children
Hometown: Putzig, Prussia
Immigration: between 1867-1869
Last Known Residence: Detroit, Michigan
Education: not able to read or write
Occupation: machinist
Church: St. Albertus Catholic Church – Detroit, Michigan
Death: August 21, 1898, 67 years old
Cemetery: Mt. Elliott Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan
Relationship to Me: 3rd great-granduncle
Sympathy Saturday – Ann Garlick Davison
Ann Garlick was born in England to the Joshua Garlick and Mary Downes. She is their youngest child. She married John Davison, and at the time of her death she was a widow. They had at least 2 children and are buried in Lockport, Will, Illinois. (3rd great-grandaunt)
Tombstone Tuesday – Sinyard (Illinois)
The Sinyard family rests in Cass Cemetery in Downer’s Grove, Illinois. There is the main family stone with 4 stones along side of it. Two of the stones belong to the two wives of John Sinyard. Eliza Garlick died in 1875. John then married Esther who died in 1914. Della, the young daughter of John and Eliza died in 1869 and rests next to Esther. John himself died in 1918 and rests next to his beloved wife, Eliza.
Spotlight Sunday – John Ostrowski
Name: Johann Anton Ostrowski
Birthday: February 11, 1861
Parents: Anton Ostrowski & Josephina Kuttni
Relationship: Married to Elisabeth Lachowski in 1885, father of 7 children, 3 dying as infants.
Married to Frances Karschina in 1898, father of 10 children, 6 dying as infants.
Hometown: Westpreußen, Preußen, Germany
Immigration: about 1868, naturalized citizen by 1910, though in 1920 he states his citizenship is still pending
Last Known Residence: Detroit, Michigan
Education: able to read, write and speak English
Occupation: Tailor
Church: St. Albertus Catholic Church
Death: November 16, 1926 of a diabetic coma.
Cemetery: Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan
Relationship to Me: 2nd great-grandfather
Tombstone Tuesday – Emil G. Hoeninghausen
August 30, 2011
Hoeninghausen
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Lisa
Emil G. Hoeninghausen died at 48 years of age and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan.
He was a fireman.