Lincoln Cemetery (Cook County)

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Phone +1 773-445-5400
Address 12300 S Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL 60655, USA Hours Closed now Friday8AM–6PMSaturday8AM–6PMSunday8AM–6PMMonday8AM–6PMTuesday8AM–6PMWednesday8AM–6PMThursday8AM–6PM Burials Bessie Coleman, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Sengstacke Abbott, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Walter Ball, Johnny "Man" Young Similar Oak Woods Cemetery, Mount Olivet Cemetery, Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Acacia Park Cemetery, Bohemian National Cemetery

Lincoln Cemetery is a cemetery in Worth Township, Cook County, Illinois, United States. It was founded in 1911. 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. 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 [1] (1898–1971), Jazz singer/pianist/second wife of Louis Armstrong (Garden of Peace Mausoleum)

Big Bill Broonzy (1893–1958), Bluesman (Section TLA)

Gwendolyn Brooks [2] (1917–2000), Poet (Section TLA)

Bessie Coleman [3] (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 [4] (died March 16, 1944)

Al Hibbler (1915-2001), American baritone vocalist.

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

Lillian C. Moseley (1905-2007) Bronzeville socialite, worked for notables on both spectrum's of the law: Al Capone, famed Gangster, Attorney Roy Washington,The honorable Harold Washington, first African American Mayor of Chicago and the Honorable Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz as well as Northwestern University, Chi Omega Sorority

Jimmy Reed (1925–1976), Bluesman (Section N)

References

Lincoln Cemetery (Cook County) Wikipedia

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