13 year old Laura Elfring-buried in the middle of O’Hare Airport!

Her name was Laura Theodora Katharine Elfring, born August 18, 1885, in Barrington Illinois, the first born of Friedrich Johann Gerhard Carl “Fred” Elfring (1858-1930) and Mary Landwehr Elfring (1861-1952)

Thirteen-year-old Laura was killed on the morning of April 10, 1898 on the Milwaukee Road railroad tracks at Bensenville, struck by a morning milk train heading to Chicago.

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