Union Miners Cemetery

	Union Miners Cemetery
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Mother Jones and Martyrs of the Progressive Miners of America Monument
Location	0.5 mi. N of Mount Olive city park, Mount Olive, Illinois
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Area	3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built	1899
NRHP Reference #	72000463
Added to NRHP	October 18, 1972

The Union Miners Cemetery is a cemetery in Mount Olive, Illinois. The cemetery is the burial site of labor leader Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, who is memorialized with a 22-foot (6.7 m) granite monument. The monument and surrounding plaques also commemorate "General" Alexander Bradley, four victims of the Battle of Virden, and twenty-one other miners who died in labor struggles. Miners Day has been celebrated on October 12 at the cemetery since 1899.^[2] The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 18, 1972.^[1]

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