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Twenty-one-year-old Harry John Ebbert
(1883-1934) spent the evening of
December 30, 1903 searching Chicago
morgues for his mother's body, while his
father lay dying at Cook County
hospital, having been carried,
unconscious, from the parquet section of
the Iroquois Theater. Both parents would join
nearly six hundred victims of America's worst
theater fire.
Forty-eight-year-old John H. Ebbert
(b.1855)
Forty-six-year-old Teresa Renner Ebbert
(b.1857)
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Harry found his mother's body at Jordan's funeral
home. His father lingered for five days
before becoming fatality number 590. It is
possible that John Ebbert was knocked unconscious by
someone falling or jumping from a balcony above.
All three Ebberts, John, Teresa and Harry, were natives
of Wheeling, West Virginia, living in Chicago at
5516 Marshfield Ave. Harry was John and
Theresa's only child and in 1903 worked at a shoe
manufactory.
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Teresa had been one of nine
children born to Herman and Caroline Renner. John
was one of six children born to John and Catherine
Ebbert.
Two years after the Iroquois Theater fire, Harry
married a Michigan native, Mary Sitter (1882-1945),
and fathered two children. They moved to Texas for a
time in 1910 but ended up back in Chicago by 1920.
At his death at age fifty-one, he worked as a
traveling salesman. He died in Evergreen Park,
Illinois, and was buried at the Holy Sepulchre
Cemetery in Worth, Illinois.
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