Lincoln Cemetery (Cook County)
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)