Rest Haven Cemetery

Located on O’Hare Airport property.
Founded 1840
Division St., Chicago

This cemetery is tucked away from the main road down a barren dirt road past a trailer and small parking lot for the sanitation trucks. A nice little cemetery that is very near the runway at O’Hare Airport.

MILLER, Thelma (daughter) 1913 – 1928
MILLER, Geneva (mother) 1887 – 1972
MILLER, Harry (father) 1887 – 1958
MILLER, Ivan J. (son) 1917 – (unfinished)
SAMPSON, Ruth 1922 – 1923
SAMPSON, Gerald 1914 – 1930
SAMPSON, Estella M. (mother) 1883 – 1931
SAMPSON, Kenneth R. 1921 – 1934
Unmarked Stone or worn
LUEHRING, Emma M. May 11 – 17, 1903
– short round stone – like a tree stump – about 8 inches tall.
Unreadable stone – looks like a book with inscriptions for 2 persons.
Unreadable stone – has a dove on the top and is rounded at the top.
Small shaped plot about the size of a child.
BIERMAN, Louis (father) 1854 – 1937
BIERMAN, Lizetta (his wife) 1856 – 1926
UNKNOWN last name, Wilhelmina 1845 – 1900
– last name starts with a Gurn—- or a Gimu—-
– cannot tell as the stone is very worn.
UNKNOWN, Ludwig (on the same as above) 1811 – 1865

COGSWELL, William F (father) 1815 – 1869
COGSWELL, Anna A (mother) 1826 – 1911
COGSWELL, Louis R. 1854 – 1878 (all the Cogswell and Williams names
WILLIAMS, Caroline C. 1849 – 1876 are on the same stone with smaller
WILLIAMS, Walter M. 1872 – 1875 stones as footmarkers.)
COGSWELL, William F. 1844 – 1864
COGSWELL, Ellen S. 1860 – 1868

KUHL, Elisabeth (nee SCHOPPEN) 15 Oct 1833 in Schale, Pruessen – 31 Juli 1914
KUHL, Gerard 19 Juli 1834 in Schale, Pruessen – 31 Sept. 1894 (on stone with Elisabeth)
ESCH, G. L. 2/14/1814 – 12/18/1894
UNKNOWN, Mary 1801 – 1879 – on same stone with ESCH.
– these two are hard to read
– a rubbing would bring the words to focus very easily.
TWACHTMAN, Fred 1858 – 1893
TWACHTMAN, Emma (his wife) 1859 – 1887
TWACHTMAN, Louise (his wife) 1860 – 1923
LANGE, Louis D. 12/2/1878 – 2/9/1967
LANGE, Edward 1864 – 1929
LANGE, Alvina 1867 – 1924
LANGE, Heinrich 16 Sept 1835 – 6 March 1912
GALLIN, Caroline Jeine born in Tonne, 14 Jan 1840 – 7 May 1883
RINDER, 1874 – 1883
– not sure if this is the last or first name
– there was nothing else on this stone to tell.
BRITTEN, (family plot as follows)
Emma April 3, 1867
Minnie 3/12/171 – 12/19/1944
William 11/16/1858 – 6/18/1940
mother – Anna 7/17/1826 – 2/13/1907
father – Micheal 7/31/1820 – 9/17/1883
PFLUGER – (family plot as follows)
Aug. John 3/20/1867 – 10/11/1868
Henry Aug. 7/15/1864 – 10/4/1865
Christian H. 3/19/1828 – 11/8/1909
Sophia 2/15/1841 – 7/10/1919
SCHUETTE – (family plot as follows)
Henry 1834 – 1921
Maria his wife 1836 – 1874
Emma his wife 1856 – 1879
Louis 1863 – 1865
Herman 1866 – 1876
Ella 1879 – 1879
UNKNOWN, Theresia 11/3/1873 – 11/6/1873
– not sure who she belongs to – closest to the HEINRICH graves.
HEINRICH, Anna (nee STUEVE) 11/1/1841 – 5/20/1874
HEINRICH, Maria (nee EGGESTEIN) 10/5/1850 – 11/20/1945
HEINRICH, Micheal 9/24/1832 – 2/10/1905
HEINRICH – LISTHARTKE, Alvina – 1888 – 1923
PFLUGER, Herman 1885 – 1969
BAKER, Carol 8/26/1935 – 8/30/1936 – small 10 x 15″ flat stone
GATHMAN, Wayne 1953
GATHMAN, Diane 1951
PFLUGER, Grace wife 1919 – 1938
PFLUGER, Catherine mother 1879 – 1962
PFLUGER, Edward A. father 1870 – 1949
HEINRICH, Frances J. 1900 – 1979
HEINRICH, William J. 1893 – 1957
HEINRICH, John W. husband and father 1923 – 1986
STUEVE, Walter 1895 – 1975
STUEVE, William 1874 – 1960
STUEVE, Fred 1888 – 1939
STUVE, Henry 1846 – 1922
STUVE, Sophie his wife 1851 – 1942
STUVE, Anna 1810 – 1895
STUVE, Lambert 1809 – 1888
STUVE, ‘children from Henry and Sophie’
– no indication to what their names were or how many children were buried there.
STUVE, Mary ‘Gest. 9 Aug. 1887 Alter 17 Yahre 7M. 11T.’
(do not know what this means entirely)
UNREADABLE,
2 BROKEN STONES – no headstone left
OLLMANN, Caroline mother 1862 – 1933
OLLMANN, Albert father 1855 – 1917
OLLMANN, Arthur son 1886 – 1938
2 UNREADABLE STONES
ERTLE, Ann Marie 29, Juli 1854 – 11 Mai 1913
FREY, Catherine 1853 – 1939
FREY, George 1856 – 1925
ROHLFING, Minnie 1865 – 1933
ROHLFING, Louisa 1 Apr 1842 – 8 Sept 1909
GATHMANN, Ida L. daughter 1881 – 1944
GATHMANN, Mathilda 1850 – 1936
GATHMANN, Henry C. 1845 – 1923
GATHMANN, Heinrich 1819 – 1891
UNKNOWN last name, Gust is the only thing readable on this stone due to it being very worn
BROKEN stone
UNKNOWN name – all that is readable on this stone is GRANDMOTHER
– NEXT to it is a stone that says MOTHER with the next name on this list
SPIEGLER, A M – the rest of the stone is unreadable
WILLIAMS, John 1867 – 1936
MOSS, Mary H 1902 – 1974
MOSS, Roy L. 1889 – 1943
STONE with no writing visible – all is worn off
GATHMANN, Louis G. 1856 – 1930
GATHMANN, Emma 1861 – 1953
BIESTERFELD, Herman 1869 – 1937
BIESTERFELD, Martha 1872 – 1967
BIESTERFELD, Martin 1904 – 1920
BIESTERFELD, Gottlieb father1837 – 1933
BIESTERFELD, Wilhelmina mother 1847 – 1926
BIESTERFELD, Lillie daughter 1884 – 1918
(also has a sep. stone next to this one for her reading “Lillie 1 mos. 48. V. 21”
(do not know what this means.)
HEINRICH, (family plot as follows)
Esther 1902 – 1903
John father 1863 – 1918
Helen mother 1869 – 1945
Alvin 1906 – 1930
Eileen ADAMS 1941 – 1941
HEINRICH, Elanore 1926 – unfinished
HEINRICH, Norman J. 1925 – 1990
ROHLFING, Elmer E. 1912 – 1926
ROHLFING, Ernest father 1871 – 1943
ROHLFING, Johanne mother 1869 – 1959
ENICHLMAIR, Frank (MAYER) Nov 5, 1897 – Oct. 5, 1989
ENICHLMAIR, Gertrude (KALIPPKE) Dec 17, 1900 – Jan 24, 1985
OLLMAN, Fred E. father 1893 – 1972
OLLMAN,Carrie L. mother 1898 – 1995
– below her name reads “Ollman Baby Boy Sep. 3, 1933”
FRANZEN, 1705 – 72 years old
ANDERSON, Louis 1859 – 1942
SCHMIDT, Hedwig 1869 – 1954
GRAUE, cannot read the first name 1/21/1822 – 3/4/1889
KLEINSCHMIDT, Henry L. Aug 2, 1837 – July 13, 1896
KLEINSCHMIDT, Kathrine Nov 25, 1843 – Nov 17, 1924
ELFRING, stone reads – ” Walter and Ludwig,
twin sons of William and Adelheid Elfring 1891 – 1891″
ELFRING, George uncle 1852 – 1932
ELFRING, Laura 18 Aug 1885 – 10 Apr 1898
– large statue of a little girl but she has been vandalized and decapitated.
– next to hers is a small stone with the name on it as follows:
ELFRING, Walter Mar 4, 1894 – Feb 14, 1900
UNREADABLE stone
ELFRING, Fred father 1858 – 1930
ELFRING, Mary mother 1861 – 1952
BIESTERFIELD, Amanda mother Apr 8, 1882 – July 1, 1934
WALL, Fred 1893 – 1910 – all by himself in one section of the cemetery – small flat stone.
SAUER, Alex L. 1892 – 1956
LUEHRING, Marie mother 1851 – 1904
SCHEINDL (??) or possibly SCHIUIDL, first name could be Wilfred
– not sure – dates are 15 Oct 1817 – 21 (???) 1891
– this stone was broken and lying on the ground.
– There was quite a bit of writing on this one, but it is too worn to read.

Contributed by Cindy Johnson