Dave Lillig of Portland, Oregon has been going through an old photo album dated 1892 and has sent me a few finds. This is one of John Lillig and I have never seen it before. He never married and as I mentioned in an earlier post was in San Francisco with his brother Nick and sister Regina when the devastating earthquake hit in 1906. A falling timber hit him in the head causing severe brain damage. A steel plate was put in his head and Regina brought him back to Kansas City by train and he was sent to live at the Osawatomie State Hospital in Kansas. He died there in early 1912 and was buried at the old St. Peter and Paul's Cemetery that was located in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
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