Individual Details

Death

Name Anna LieblEvent Type DeathEvent Date 21 Jan 1917Event Place , Cook, Illinois, United StatesGender FemaleAge 56Marital Status MarriedEthnicity AmericanRace WhiteOccupation HousewifeBirth Date 1860Birthplace GermanyBurial Date 24 Jan 1917Cemetery St. Maria Cem.Father's Name Michael MeindlFather's Birthplace GermanyMother's Name Theresa MeindlMother's Birthplace GermanyRecord Number 15Source Reference cn 2615

Burial

ST. MARIA.— M T. GREENWOOD.Of the four cemeteries situated beyond the sou Л western limits of the City: St. Maria, Mt. Greenwood, Mt. Olivet and Mt. Hope, the first named lies nearest to the City and is the one where the funeral trains of the Grand Trunk Railroad coming from the city make their first stop.ST. MARIA CEMETERYis a German Catholic burying ground, which was consecrated on May 13, 1888, by Archbishop Feehan in the presence of a large concourse of people. Its northern boundary line is formed by Eighty-seventh street; the cemetery contains one hundred and two acres of ground, which lie on the western slope of Washington heights at an elevation of fifty-five feet above the level of Lake Michigan and of from sixteen to twenty feet above the level of the surrounding prairie-land.The German Catholics of the South and Southwest Sides have long felt the need of a burying ground somewhere near the southern limits of Chicago, where those of their people, who died in the Catholic faith, could find a final resting place, but not until the year 1887 had nearly passed was there an earnest effort made in this direction. Then it was that through the generosity of Heinrich Wischemeyer and his wife Maria, the Association which has also control and the management of St. Boniface, the German Catholic cemetery on the North Side, was presented with sixty acres of the land which now forms St. Maria Cemetery, under the condition that the profits derived from the sale of lots and single graves be turned over to the Orphan Asylum at Rosehill, which together with the two cemeteries is managed by a directory, chosen from the different German Catholic congregations of Chicago. After the sixty acres donated by Mr. and Mrs. Wischemeyer had been laid out and embellished,forty-two acres more of adjoining land was purchased at a very low figure.Opposite the entrance gate on Eighty-seventh Street the management has erected a pretty depot-building in Swiss cottage-style. When the grounds passed into the possession of the association, the entire area showed neither tree nor shrub; to-day more than four thousand shade trees of healthy growth are planted along the winding drives and foot-paths and scattered in picturesque groups all over the place, which at no distant day will equal any of the older cemeteries in point of landscape and general arrangement. The modern lawn-system has found favor here from the start and when the drives were mapped out, they were so arranged as to form a connecting system of carriage roads throughout the grounds. The different links of this chain of driveways have been given names such as: St. Anthony, St. Henry. St. Peter, St. Francis, St. Paul, St. George, St. Augustin, St. Martin, St. Ferdinand, St. Aloysius Avenue. At a central point where all the roads converge, a monument has been erected to the memory of Mr. and Mrs. Wischemeyer, It is hewn out of marble and is the gift of the Cemetery Association, who desired to express, in this manner its gratitude for the liberal donation of land by the honored couple. Not far from this monument, the receiving vault, a massive and spacious structure, arrests the attention of the visitor. It has room for four hundred coffins and is covered by a blue slate roof, beneath which two circular colored glass-windows admit the light of day to the interior. From 'here St. John's Avenue leads to the highest point of the cemetery, where we also find the dwelling of the sexton, who from his abode can overlook the entire territory under his immediate control.