Lincoln Cemetery (Cook County)
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Lincoln Cemetery is a cemetery in Worth Township, Cook County, Illinois, United States. The cemetery maintains a Chicago address, 12300 South Kedzie Avenue.[1] It is noteworthy for the number of famous African-American Chicagoans buried there, among them several blues and jazz musicians of note.
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.[2]
- 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[3]
- Jimmy Reed (1925–1976), Bluesman (Section N)
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