Monthly Archives: August 2017

Joseph Schlitz, Beer Baron

Posted on August 28, 2017 by gravelyspeaking

Joseph Schlitz Born: May 15, 1831 Lost at Sea: May 7, 1875 Joseph Schlitz was born in Mainz, Germany.  He immigrated to the United States in 1850 and settled in Milwaukee.  He was hired on at the Krug Brewery as … Continue reading →

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August Krug, Brewer

Posted on August 25, 2017 by gravelyspeaking

August Krug BORN April 15, 1815 DIED Dec. 30, 1856 There are so many beer barons, beer masters, and brewers buried in the Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee, a city made famous by its name brand beers, that the cemetery … Continue reading →

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Frederick Pabst, Beer Baron

Posted on August 23, 2017 by gravelyspeaking

Frederick Pabst March 28, 1836 – January 1, 1904 Frederick Pabst was born in the small Saxon village in what was then the Kingdom of Prussia.  When he was twelve, he immigrated to the United States with his father and … Continue reading →

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Valentin Blatz, Beer Baron

Posted on August 20, 2017 by gravelyspeaking

Valentin Blatz Born October 1, 1826, Miltenburg, Germany Died May 26, 1894, Saint Paul, Minnesota Valentin Blatz, a German émigré, settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1849.  Blatz had worked in his father’s Bavarian brewery and others and plied the trade … Continue reading →

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Everlasting Life

Posted on August 15, 2017 by gravelyspeaking

Ribeth Conson Appleby 1917 — 2000 James Scott Appleby 1921 — 1974 Annie De Prairie Appleby 1885 – 1952 The Appleby Family Monument features a bronze sculpture standing in front of a stone arched alcove. The diminutive woman is leaning … Continue reading →

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Skull and Crossbones

Posted on August 12, 2017 by gravelyspeaking

The zinc KEESE Family Monument in the Rock Creek Cemetery at Washing D.C. displays symbols representing The Knights of Pythias—a knight’s helmet surmounts a shield with a skull and crossbones and three letters, “F”, “C”, and “B”, which stand for … Continue reading →

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Claddagh Ring

Posted on August 8, 2017 by gravelyspeaking

Carved into a gray Vermont granite gravestone in the Hope Cemetery at Barre is a design consisting of three symbols—hands clasping a heart surmounted by a crown.  This design is a traditional ring design, known as a Claddagh ring.  Each … Continue reading →

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Locomotive

Posted on August 3, 2017 by gravelyspeaking

PAPA MAX SCHUSTER BORN OCT. 12, 1850 DIED SEPT. 17, 1895   MOTHER Louisa Bindeman Schuster 1853 – 1918 The rustic movement of the mid-nineteenth century was characterized by designs that were made to look like they were from the … Continue reading →

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