Weishaar farm Park Forest, Illinois: Artifacts belonging to John Michael Weishaar and one church door key from St. Anns prairie chapel on Sauk Trail just west of the Weishaar farm homestead. This key was in the possession of the Weishaars as they were custodians of the prairle church when the traveling priest was not there. St. Anns is the church around which, legends tell us, the devildogs howled in frustration, not being able to take the soul of a man who had fallen away from the church but was cleverly buried on ground where the bishop had accidentally dropped a few drops of holy water.
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at Weishaar homestead in what is now the suburban area of Park Forest in Park Forest, Cook County, Illinois United States of America
John Michael and Elizabeth Weishaar Family & Friends in Illinois circa 1910: Back Row, l to r: Elizabeth Weishaar nee Fuches (Fox), Agatha Weishaar, unknown girl, Helen Weishaar, priest, George Weishaar, William "Bill" Weishaar, John Michael Weishaar
Middle Row, l to r: the twins who became nuns, Sister Agathena and Sister Bonavita. Lucy Rose Weishaar, Frank Polignat (?) with dog.
People in photo include: Helen Weishaar, George Weishaar, and Frank Polignat
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at Michael Weishaar homestead farm at this time run by his son John Michael Weishaar. Located on Sauk Trail east of St Ann church/St Anne cemetery in Park Forest, Cook County, Illinois United States of America
Weishaar Family and Homestead in Park Forest, Illinois in the 1890s. I commissioned this painting by Disney artist Paul Wenzel in the early 1980's when I worked at the studio in Burbank. Paul did it as an independent artist and I personally paid him $300.. It is drawn from a projection of an old photo, and is accurate as to all details. The people in the picture are Weishaar family members. John Michael Weishaar proudly sits on his horse team. This farm was located directly east and south of the St Anne's Church and cemetery on Sauk Trail, on both sides of the trail. - John Michael Klawitter
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at Michael Weishaar Farm in Park Forest, Cook County, Illinois United States of America
John & Elizabeth (Fuches) Weishaar, Illinois c1885
John Michael Weishaar & Elizabeth (Fuches or Fox) Weishaar of Illinois (1885) farmed the lands on Sauk Trail deeded by JMW's grandfather and father. This acreage was east and south of the St. Anne's Priaire Chapel on Sauk Trail, east of Richton Park. St. Annes burned down and was replaced with a similar chapel, called St. Ann's. The cemetery remains to this day, where are buried many members of the original pioneer families; the Scheidts, the Foxes, the Blattners, the Weishaars,, to name a few.
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at photo studio in Chicago Heights, Cook County, Illinois United States of America
