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Margaret Lamp Graff

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH:

October 22, 1841

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City of Birth:

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DATE OF DEATH:

December 30, 1903

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GENDER:

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OTHER KNOWN NAMES:

Margaret Graff; Mrs. Reinhold Graff*; Mrs. Rhinehold Graff; Margaret Lamp; Margaret Leiser; Mrs Jacob Leiser

MAIDEN NAME:

Lamp

ETHNICITY:

German

RACE:

NATIONALITY:

RELATED TO:

Reinhold Graff
Albert W Graff
Frank B Graff
Anna Bell Newby

DATE OF MARRIAGE:

PLACE OF MARRIAGE:

DATE OF ADDRESS:

KNOWN ADDRESS:

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Bloomington

Illinois

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ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:

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AT THE TIME OF the fire

ROLE:

Audience Member

STATUS:

Victim

AGE:

62

MARITAL STATUS:

Married

other information

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CEMETERY:

Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington IL

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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