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 blues and jazz musicians of note. aple

Notable graves

• Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870–1940), newspaper publisher (Section 1)
• Albert Ammons (1907–1949), Jazz/Boogie-Woogie pianist (Section TLA)
• Lillian Hardin Armstrong (1898–1971), Jazz singer/pianist/second wife of Louis Armstrong (Garden of Peace Mausoleum)
• Big Bill Broonzy (1893–1958), Bluesman (Section TLA)
• Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000), Poet (Section TLA)
• Bessie Coleman (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 (died March 16, 1944)
• Al Hibbler (1915-2001), American baritone vocalist.^[3]
• 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^[4]
• 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

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. http://www.dignitymemorial.com/lincoln-cemetery/en-us/index.page
3. Albert George Hibbler
4. "Certificate and Record of Death of Frank Leland" Chicago Department of Health, Chicago, IL, November 14, 1914

Coordinates: 41°40′06″N 87°42′08″W / 41.6684°N 87.7023°W