Family:Fred Dieckroeger and Fredericka Funke (1)

The three children who died in infancy were buried in the First German Protestant Evangelical Cemetery of Avondale. This cemetery has a sad history, based on a response to a lookup request on Rootsweb: "It was originally founded in the country, away from the City of Cincinnati, in an area that became the Village of Avondale, which in turn was on January 1, 1896 incorporated by the City of Cincinnati. It had a large iron gate entrance at 3632 Reading Road over which hung a key. Legend often repeated that anyone who touched the key would die within the year. It became known as the cholera cemetery by 1878. People feared even digging the ground where cholera victims had been placed, It was closed in 1878 and placed under the care of a seven-man trusteeship. The village of Avondle, prior to becoming incorporated by the City of Cincinnati, had passed an ordinance in 1894 trying to force the Cemetery Trustees to remove the burials. As time passed, the cemetery was forgotten. In 1966, the cemetery grounds were sold to the Cincinnati Board of Education, then covered over with black asphalt for a school playground Today, no visible trace remains of the original cemetery."