Featured biographies of people buried in the Monroe Street Cemetery
- Christopher & Maria Louisa FreseChristopher Frese 1834-1904; Maria Louisa Frese 1828-1904 The weather report for the 28th of June 1904 called for partly cloudy conditions and “light and fresh, east to southeast winds.” It promised to be a little warmer than …
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Read more - Benjamin F. TylerBenjamin Tyler, 1803 – 1865; Sarah Tyler, 1809 – 1880 Benjamin F. Tyler was born in Jefferson County, New York, in 1803. He came to Cleveland in 1832 as the principal representative of an investment group from …
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Read more - Anson and Amy SmithAnson: 1795-1891Amy: 1797-1877 Anson Smith was born in New London, Connecticut, and as a young man he started a very successful business as a woolen merchant. The great financial period of the 1830s found Anson’s business failing …
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Read more - August & Wilhelmina RuthenbergAugust: 1839 – 1898Wilhelmina: 1846 – 1914 Charles: July 9, 1882- March 3, 1927 On September 16, 1920, as the bells of Trinity Church in New York City’s Wall Street district were ringing noon, a dynamite-laden horse-drawn …
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Read more - Isabell Roy3/22/1850 – 11/15/1867 What follows is a newspaper account that appeared in the New York Times on November 22, 1867. The story of the murder of Isabell Roy was sensational enough to induce that major east coast …
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