Anna was the wife of Oscar Neebe, a radical labor leader and anarchist, who would be convicted and imprisoned for alleged ties to participants in the 1886 Haymarket Square bombing in Chicago.
Anna was about 21 when she married Oscar at the Salem Zion View Church of Christ in Philadelphia on May 11, 1873. The couple would have three children and move to Chicago in 1877.
Anna died while her husband Oscar was jailed and facing the threat of execution. Ultimately sentenced to 15-years, he was allowed, while in the company of armed guards, to view her body in the family’s tenement home, but was refused permission to attend her March 16, 1887 funeral.
Funeral services were held at Mueller’s Hall, at the corner of North Ave. and Sedgewick St., Chicago, where a crowd estimated at between 20,000 and 30,000 people gathered inside and outside in observance. The services “began with the rendition of one of Goethe’s songs by a male chorus, and then George Schilling made an address, in which he spoke of Mrs. Neebe as a wife and mother in eloquent terms… Resolutions of condolence were read and then Paul Grottkau," as reported by the Trenton Evening Times, delivered a speech in German. “He said in substance that Mrs. Neebe had died of a broken heart – a victim of cruel society – leaving beind those who are persecuted with a brutality that has no parallel in history….From this bier a call shall go forth to the powerful and the rich cautioning them as to the fruitage of their own storm seed.”
“The funeral cortege was composed of various Socialist and trade organizations of Chicago in full regalia and with banners covered with crepe, besides numerous people in carriages and on foot. The interment took place in Graceland cemetery after brief remarks by Paul Grottkau.”
Anna was about 21 when she married Oscar at the Salem Zion View Church of Christ in Philadelphia on May 11, 1873. The couple would have three children and move to Chicago in 1877.
Anna died while her husband Oscar was jailed and facing the threat of execution. Ultimately sentenced to 15-years, he was allowed, while in the company of armed guards, to view her body in the family’s tenement home, but was refused permission to attend her March 16, 1887 funeral.
Funeral services were held at Mueller’s Hall, at the corner of North Ave. and Sedgewick St., Chicago, where a crowd estimated at between 20,000 and 30,000 people gathered inside and outside in observance. The services “began with the rendition of one of Goethe’s songs by a male chorus, and then George Schilling made an address, in which he spoke of Mrs. Neebe as a wife and mother in eloquent terms… Resolutions of condolence were read and then Paul Grottkau," as reported by the Trenton Evening Times, delivered a speech in German. “He said in substance that Mrs. Neebe had died of a broken heart – a victim of cruel society – leaving beind those who are persecuted with a brutality that has no parallel in history….From this bier a call shall go forth to the powerful and the rich cautioning them as to the fruitage of their own storm seed.”
“The funeral cortege was composed of various Socialist and trade organizations of Chicago in full regalia and with banners covered with crepe, besides numerous people in carriages and on foot. The interment took place in Graceland cemetery after brief remarks by Paul Grottkau.”
Anna was the wife of Oscar Neebe, a radical labor leader and anarchist, who would be convicted and imprisoned for alleged ties to participants in the 1886 Haymarket Square bombing in Chicago.
Anna was about 21 when she married Oscar at the Salem Zion View Church of Christ in Philadelphia on May 11, 1873. The couple would have three children and move to Chicago in 1877.
Anna died while her husband Oscar was jailed and facing the threat of execution. Ultimately sentenced to 15-years, he was allowed, while in the company of armed guards, to view her body in the family’s tenement home, but was refused permission to attend her March 16, 1887 funeral.
Funeral services were held at Mueller’s Hall, at the corner of North Ave. and Sedgewick St., Chicago, where a crowd estimated at between 20,000 and 30,000 people gathered inside and outside in observance. The services “began with the rendition of one of Goethe’s songs by a male chorus, and then George Schilling made an address, in which he spoke of Mrs. Neebe as a wife and mother in eloquent terms… Resolutions of condolence were read and then Paul Grottkau," as reported by the Trenton Evening Times, delivered a speech in German. “He said in substance that Mrs. Neebe had died of a broken heart – a victim of cruel society – leaving beind those who are persecuted with a brutality that has no parallel in history….From this bier a call shall go forth to the powerful and the rich cautioning them as to the fruitage of their own storm seed.”
“The funeral cortege was composed of various Socialist and trade organizations of Chicago in full regalia and with banners covered with crepe, besides numerous people in carriages and on foot. The interment took place in Graceland cemetery after brief remarks by Paul Grottkau.”
Anna was about 21 when she married Oscar at the Salem Zion View Church of Christ in Philadelphia on May 11, 1873. The couple would have three children and move to Chicago in 1877.
Anna died while her husband Oscar was jailed and facing the threat of execution. Ultimately sentenced to 15-years, he was allowed, while in the company of armed guards, to view her body in the family’s tenement home, but was refused permission to attend her March 16, 1887 funeral.
Funeral services were held at Mueller’s Hall, at the corner of North Ave. and Sedgewick St., Chicago, where a crowd estimated at between 20,000 and 30,000 people gathered inside and outside in observance. The services “began with the rendition of one of Goethe’s songs by a male chorus, and then George Schilling made an address, in which he spoke of Mrs. Neebe as a wife and mother in eloquent terms… Resolutions of condolence were read and then Paul Grottkau," as reported by the Trenton Evening Times, delivered a speech in German. “He said in substance that Mrs. Neebe had died of a broken heart – a victim of cruel society – leaving beind those who are persecuted with a brutality that has no parallel in history….From this bier a call shall go forth to the powerful and the rich cautioning them as to the fruitage of their own storm seed.”
“The funeral cortege was composed of various Socialist and trade organizations of Chicago in full regalia and with banners covered with crepe, besides numerous people in carriages and on foot. The interment took place in Graceland cemetery after brief remarks by Paul Grottkau.”
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