THE people

Augusta Wieser (Wiese)

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

STATUS: 
Victim
DATE OF Birth:
City of Birth:
Year OF DEATH:
1915
City of Death:
Chicago,
 IL,
  Cook County,
 United States
GENDER:
F
OTHER KNOWN NAMES:
MAIDEN NAME:
ETHNICITY:
German
KNOWN ADDRESS:
RELATED TO:

At the time of the tragedy.

AGE:
65
MARITAL STATUS:
Widow
ROLE:
passenger

other information

CEMETERY:
Concordia
OTHER NOTES:

...grandmother and granddaughter both perished...

Augusta Wieser and her granddaughter, Elizabeth Rakow, boarded the Eastland together on their way to the Western Electric employee picnic.

Augusta's daughter Minnie and son-in-law Daniel Quinn and their daughter Lauretta were to have joined them for the picnic as well. But Daniel and his wife Minnie got into an argument and they ended up returning home instead.

Grandmother Augusta and granddaughter Elizabeth both perished that morning.

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