George E Freckelton

Even though it is reported that George Freckelton died in the Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago,1903 along with two of his sisters, Ella and Edith Freckelton, there is no record of there being a George Freckelton in that family.  This may be a mis-reporting.

Form Judy Cooke:  His [George Freckelton] name was included in a day-after newspaper Missing & Dead list that included many names of people who it later turned out were not at the theater and not missing or deceased. Contrasted with where George's name was NOT included:

• Coroner's inquest witnesses
• Newspaper obituary notices with details supplied by his family of funerals for Edith and Ella (see clipping)
• Newspaper follow up report on Ella's and Edith's funeral (see cliipping)
• In his mother's 1930 obituary
• A list of Chicago student victims

He is listed as an Iroquois fatality on Find-A-Grave (F.A.G.) but I suspect the F.A.G. lister got the information from an early error-filled newspaper list.

There is nothing to support that a George Freckelton died at the Iroquois Theater.