Posts about cemetery records and cemeteries, including primary sources  documenting deaths and burials and finding grave-sites.

13 Jul 2010

Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument in Chicago

By |13 Jul 2010|Cemetery Records, Chicago Genealogy, Tombstone Tuesday|0 Comments

The Haymarket Martyrs' Monument was erected at German Waldheim Cemetery in 1893. This impressive monument memorializes the labor activists executed in 1887 by the State of Illinois for the Haymarket Affair three years before. The inscription on the [...]

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