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Margaret Lamp Graff

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH:
October 22, 1841
DATE OF DEATH:
December 30, 1903
GENDER:
F
OTHER KNOWN NAMES:
Margaret Graff; Mrs. Reinhold Graff*; Mrs. Rhinehold Graff; Margaret Lamp; Margaret Leiser; Mrs Jacob Leiser
MAIDEN NAME:
Lamp
ETHNICITY:
KNOWN ADDRESS:
 Bloomington 
 IL
RELATED TO:

Reinhold Graff
Albert W Graff
Frank B Graff
Anna Bell Newby

AT THE TIME OF the fire

AGE:
62
MARITAL STATUS:
Married
ROLE:
Audience Member
ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:
ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE:

other information

CEMETERY:
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington IL
MORGUE:
IDENTIFIED BY:
OTHER NOTES:

Mrs. Rhinehold Graff, aged 63, and her daughter, Mrs. Anna Bell Newby of Bloomington met death in the theater disaster.  Their remains have been shipped to Bloomington.  The women were in the parquet when the rush of flames came.  They were trampled to death by the crowd. (Woodford County Journal)

CITATION:

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) · 1 Jan 1904, Fri · Page 2
The Weekly Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois) · Friday, January 01, 1904, page 5
Woodford County Journal (Eureka, Illinois) 07 Jan 1904, Thu p1
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41912800/margaret-graff

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Karl Sup

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