Regina Westfall nee Lillig

A very early photo of Jean. If the 1895 date on the card is correct she would be 17 or 18 years old here. This is another one that came from the box Jim Davies rescued from oblivion and later identified by Cecilia Lavery.

Katie Bruderer nee Lillig

Kate Bruderer, undated. I have never come across any earlier photos of her.

Kless

A very nice cabinet card of Kless. Undated. Saved from the trash by Jim Davies.

Nick Lillig

And another one from Dave Lillig. That is Nick Lillig on the left. Dave thinks that is Matt on the right but I disagree. I will leave it to you.

What I would really like to know is what the occasion was for this photograph with the cigars and all. What were they celebrating? I would guess some sort of financial windfall.

Matthew Lillig

This is another photo from Dave Lillig's 1892 album. It is a cabinet card of Matthew George Lillig taken while he was still living in Kansas City. He became an attorney and traveled the west never settling down or getting married. Over the years he lived and worked in California, Oregon, Colorado, Illinois, and Nebraska. I have a business card of his from when he lived in Salida, Colorado. He was a member of the Masons Eagle Lodge in Minturn, Colorado, not far from Vail.

While staying at the Miller Hotel, a brothel in Omaha, Nebraska, he took suddenly ill and was sent to St. Joseph's Hospital there. He died a couple of days later on April 8, 1922 of acute gastritis at the age of forty-seven. His funeral was held at the Masonic Temple in Omaha after which he was cremated and his remains and effects were shipped to his brother, Nick, in Portland, Oregon where he was buried.

John Joseph Lillig

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.

Anna Huebner

A very nice photograph of Anna Huebner nee Lillig. Undated.