Lincoln Cemetery (Cook County)

Lincoln Cemetery is a cemetery in Worth Township, Cook County, Illinois, United States. It was founded in 1911.[1] Although not within the municipal boundaries of the city, the cemetery maintains a Chicago address at 12300 South Kedzie Avenue, sharing its zip code with the city's Mount Greenwood neighborhood whose southern border lies a mile north of the cemetery gate.[2] The cemetery is noteworthy for the number of famous African-American Chicagoans buried there, among them several notable blues and jazz musicians.

Notable graves
  • Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870–1940), newspaper publisher (Section 1)
  • Albert Ammons (1907–1949), Jazz/boogie-woogie pianist (Section TLA)
  • Lillian Hardin Armstrong[3] (1898–1971), Jazz singer/pianist/second wife of Louis Armstrong (Garden of Peace Mausoleum)
  • Big Bill Broonzy (1893–1958), Bluesman (Section TLA)
  • Gwendolyn Brooks[4] (1917–2000), Poet (Section TLA)
  • Bessie Coleman [5] (1892–1926), early African-American aviator (Section 9)
  • Johnny Dodds (1892–1940), Jazz clarinetist (Section 18)
  • Warren "Baby" Dodds (1898–1959), Jazz drummer (Section 32)
  • Charles "Pat" Dougherty (1879–1939) American baseball pitcher in the pre-Negro Leagues
  • Andrew Rube Foster (1879–1930), American baseball player, manager, and executive in the Negro Leagues (Section 6)
  • William "Bill" Francis (1879–1942) Third baseman and manager in the Negro Leagues.
  • King Daniel Ganaway Photographer[6] (died March 16, 1944)
  • Al Hibbler (1915–2001), American baritone vocalist.[7]
  • Papa Charlie Jackson (1887–1938), American blues singer, songster and banjoist/guitarist
  • Tom "College Boy" Johnson (1889–1926) American baseball pitcher in the Negro Leagues
  • Frank Leland (1869–1914), American baseball player, manager, and executive in the pre-Negro Leagues[8]
  • Lillian C. Moseley (1905–2007) Bronzeville socialite, worked for notables on both sides of the law: Al Capone, Attorney Roy Washington, The Honorable Harold Washington, first African American Mayor of Chicago and the Honorable Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz
  • Jimmy Reed (1925–1976), Blues musician (Section N)
  • Ella (Wilson) Wright (b. 1884 Mississippi[9] – d. Jan 13, 1959 Chicago, Illinois[10]) who was a schoolteacher and the mother of writer Richard Wright 1908-1960.

References
  1. Hucke, Matt and Ursula Bielski (1999). Graveyards of Chicago: The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County County. Chicago: Lake Claremont Press. p. 169. ISBN 0964242648.
  2. "Lincoln Cemetery". Dignitymemorial.com. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  3. Tombstone Tourist
  4. WTTW
  5. Life of Bessie Coleman
  6. Chicago Tribune
  7. Encyclopedia of Arkansas Music
  8. "1914FrankLelandDeathCertificate.pdf". Google Docs. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  9. US Census 1900
  10. LDS Family Search: Cook County Death record


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