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The Burr Oak and Restvale cemeteries are located in Alsip, Illinois
Alsip, Illinois

Alsip is a village in Cook County, Illinois, Illinois, United States. The population was 19,725 at the 2000 census. It is a suburb of Chicago....
, a suburb slightly southwest of the city of Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
. Many legendary musicians from the Chicago blues
Chicago blues

The Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois by taking the basic acoustic guitar and harmonica-based Delta blues and adding electric guitar, amplified bass guitar, Drum kit, piano, and sometimes saxophone, and making the harmonica louder with a microphone and an instrument amplifier....
 era are buried here.

urr Oak Cemetery is located at 4400 West 127th Street in Alsip. Amongst those of note interred here are:

estvale Cemetery is located at 11700 S. Laramie Street in Alsip.






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The Burr Oak and Restvale cemeteries are located in Alsip, Illinois
Alsip, Illinois

Alsip is a village in Cook County, Illinois, Illinois, United States. The population was 19,725 at the 2000 census. It is a suburb of Chicago....
, a suburb slightly southwest of the city of Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
. Many legendary musicians from the Chicago blues
Chicago blues

The Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois by taking the basic acoustic guitar and harmonica-based Delta blues and adding electric guitar, amplified bass guitar, Drum kit, piano, and sometimes saxophone, and making the harmonica louder with a microphone and an instrument amplifier....
 era are buried here.

Burr Oak Cemetery

Burr Oak Cemetery is located at 4400 West 127th Street in Alsip. Amongst those of note interred here are:
  • Noble Drew Ali (1886-1929), prophet and founder of the Moorish Science Temple of America
  • James Kokomo Arnold
    Kokomo Arnold

    Kokomo Arnold was an United States blues musician.Born James Arnold in Lovejoy's Station, Georgia, Georgia , Arnold received his nickname in 1934 after releasing "Old Original Kokomo Blues" for the Decca Records record label; it was a cover version of the Scrapper Blackwell blues song about the Kokomo brand of coffee....
     (1901-1968), blues musician
  • Walter Barnes
    Walter Barnes

    Walter Barnes was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and bandleader.Barnes grew up in Chicago and studied under Franz Schoepp in addition to attending the Chicago Musical College and the American Conservatory of Music....
    , bandleader who perished with 10 members of his band in the Rhythm Night Club Fire
    Rhythm Night Club Fire

    The Rhythm Night Club fire took place in Natchez, Mississippi, United States on April 23, 1940 and killed 209 African-American party goers, while severely injuring many others....
  • Lexie Bigham
    Lexie Bigham

    Lexie Darnell Bigham, Jr. was an American film and television actor. Bigham appeared in numerous independent films and television series. His prominent roles came in the films Se7en, Boyz n the Hood, South Central , Dave , Drop Zone, Airheads, Up Close and Personal, and High School High....
     (1968-1995), actor
  • Ezzard Charles
    Ezzard Charles

    Ezzard Mack Charles was an African-American professional boxer and former List of Heavyweight Champions of the world.He was born in Lawrenceville, Georgia, Georgia , but is commonly thought of as a Cincinnati, Ohio....
     (1921-1975), world heavyweight boxing champion
  • George "Sonny" Cohn (1925-2006), jazz trumpeter with Count Basie for 30 years
  • Jimmie Crutchfield
    Jimmie Crutchfield

    John William Crutchfield, born May 25, 1910 in Macon County, Missouri, United States ? died March 31, 1993 in Chicago, Illinois, was an All-Star baseball player in Negro League baseball....
     (1910-1993), All-Star Negro League baseball
    Negro league baseball

    The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams predominantly made up of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the #Significant Negro leagues that are sometimes termed "Negro Major Leagues"....
     player
  • Willie Dixon
    Willie Dixon

    William James "Willie" Dixon was a well-known United States blues bassist, singing, songwriter, arranger and record producer. His songs, including "Little Red Rooster", "Hoochie Coochie Man", "Evil ", "Spoonful", "Back Door Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You", "I Ain't Superstitious", "My Babe", "Wang Dang Doodle", and "Bring It on Home"...
     (1915-1992), blues musician and songwriter
  • John Donaldson
    John Donaldson

    John Wesley Donaldson was an United States baseball player in the Negro league baseball. He was born in Glasgow, Missouri.Researchers have documented much of his career....
     (1892-1970), star pre-Negro League baseball pitcher and barnstormer businessman
  • Jodie Edwards (1895-1967), of comedy duo Butterbeans and Susie
    Butterbeans and Susie

    Butterbeans and Susie were a double act made up of Jodie Edwards and Susie Hawthorne . Edwards began his career in 1910 as a singer and dancer....
  • Inman Jackson (1907-1973), player with the Harlem Globetrotters
    Harlem Globetrotters

    The Harlem Globetrotters are an Exhibition game basketball team that combines wikt:athleticism and comedy.Created by Abe Saperstein in 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, the team adopted the name Harlem because of its connotations as a major African-American community....
    *Otis Spann
    Otis Spann

    Otis Spann was an United States blues musician. Many aficionados considered him then, and now, as Chicago's leading postwar blues pianist....
     (1930-1970), blues pianist
  • James A. "Candy Jim" Taylor
    Candy Jim Taylor

    James Allen "Candy Jim" Taylor was an United States third baseman and manager in Negro league baseball.Born in Anderson, South Carolina, Taylor was one of four brothers who played in the Negro Leagues, along with Ben Taylor , C....
     (1884-1948), Negro League baseball player and manager
  • Emmett Till
    Emmett Till

    Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till was an African American boy from Chicago, Illinois who was murdered at the age of 14 in Money, Mississippi, a small town in the state's Mississippi Delta....
     (1941-1955), murder victim whose death helped galvanize the U.S. Civil Rights Movement
  • Dinah Washington
    Dinah Washington

    Dinah Washington was a blues, R&B and jazz singer. Because of her strong voice and emotional singing, she is known as the "Queen of the Blues"....
     (1924-1963), "Queen of the Blues"
  • J. Mayo Williams (1894-1980) Early blues and jazz record producer and one of the first black players in the NFL


Restvale Cemetery

Restvale Cemetery is located at 11700 S. Laramie Street in Alsip. Amongst those notables interred here are:
  • John Henry Barbee
    John Henry Barbee

    John Henry Barbee was an United States blues singer and guitarist. He was born William George Tucker in Henning, Tennessee, Tennessee, and changed his name with the commencement of his sound recording and reproduction career to reflect his favourite folk music song, "John Henry "....
     (1905-1964), blues singer, guitarist
  • David Barksdale
    David Barksdale

    David Barksdale also known as King David was the original leader of the Chicago-based street gang the Black Disciples.Born Donise David Barksdale on May 25, 1947 in Sallis, Mississippi to parents Virginia and Charlie in a family of thirteen children, he moved with his family to Chicago in 1957....
     (1947-1974), leader of the Black Disciples street gang
  • Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton
    Nathaniel Clifton

    Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton was an United States multi-sport athlete best known as the first African American to sign a contract to play in the National Basketball Association....
     (1926-1990), professional basketball player
  • Jazz Gillum
    Jazz Gillum

    William McKinley Gillum , known as Jazz Gillum, was an United States blues harmonica player.He was born in Indianola, Mississippi, Mississippi....
     (1904-1966), blues harmonica player
  • Earl Hooker
    Earl Hooker

    Earl Hooker was an United States blues guitarist. Hooker was a Chicago slide guitarist in the same league as Elmore James, Hound Dog Taylor, and his mentor, Robert Nighthawk....
     (1929-1970), blues guitarist
  • Big Walter "Shakey" Horton
    Big Walter Horton

    Big Walter Horton or Walter "Shakey" Horton was an American blues harmonica player.Born Walter Horton in Horn Lake, Mississippi, he was playing a harmonica by the time he was five years old....
     (1918-1981), blues harmonica player
  • Samuel "Magic Sam" Maghett
    Magic Sam

    Samuel "Magic Sam" Gene Maghett was an American blues musician. Maghett was born in Grenada, Mississippi and learned to play the blues from listening to records by Muddy Waters and Little Walter....
     (1936-1969), blues musician
  • Charles "Papa Charlie" McCoy
    Papa Charlie McCoy

    Charles "Papa Charlie" McCoy was an African American delta blues musician and songwriter....
     (1909-1950), blues musician
  • Kansas Joe McCoy
    Kansas Joe McCoy

    Kansas Joe McCoy was an African American blues musician and songwriter....
     (1905-1950), blues musician
  • James Burke "St. Louis Jimmy" Oden
    St. Louis Jimmy Oden

    James Burke "St. Louis Jimmy" Oden , was an United States blues singer and songwriter.Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee, Jimmy Oden sang and taught himself to play the piano in childhood....
     (1903-1977), blues musician, composer
  • Eddie Taylor
    Eddie Taylor

    Edward "Eddie" Taylor was an United States blues guitarist and singer.As a boy Taylor taught himself to play the guitar. He spent his early years playing at venues around Leland, Mississippi, where he taught his friend Jimmy Reed to play guitar....
     (1923-1985), blues guitarist, songwriter
  • Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor
    Hound Dog Taylor

    Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor was an United States blues guitarist and singer....
     (1915-1975), blues musician
  • Muddy Waters
    Muddy Waters

    McKinley Morganfield , better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered "the Father of Chicago blues"....
     (1915-1983), blues musician
  • Valerie Wellington (1959-1993), actress, opera singer, blues singer
  • Joesph E. Nathaniel (1919-1993), blues pianist, blues singer


See also

  • List of United States cemeteries
  • List of famous cemeteries