Lincoln Cemetery (other)

	Lincoln Cemetery (other) Lincoln Cemetery may refer to: Lincoln Cemetery (Cook County), Illinois Lincoln Cemetery (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) Lincoln Cemetery was founded in November 1877 by the Wesley Union African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (A.M.E. Zion Church), and is located at 201 South 30th Street in the Penbrook area of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. History The oldest ext ... * Lincoln Cemetery (Montgomery, Alabama), final resting place of Rufus "Tee Tot" Payne, mentor to Hank Williams, Sr. {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Lincoln Cemetery (Cook County) Lincoln Cemetery is a historically African American cemetery in Blue Island, Illinois, United States. The cemetery is about with over 16,000 internments. History Founded in 1911 by local Black business leaders, the cemetery is next to the Oak Hill Cemetery. The cemetery is noteworthy for the number of famous African-American Chicagoans buried there, among them several notable blues and jazz musicians, as well as notables in literature, sports, and history. Notable graves * Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870–1940), newspaper publisher * Albert Ammons (1907–1949), jazz/boogie-woogie pianist * Gene Ammons (1925–1974), jazz tenor saxophonist (son of Albert Ammons) * Lillian Hardin Armstrong (1898–1971), jazz singer/pianist/second wife of Louis Armstrong (Garden of Peace Mausoleum) * Charles Avery (1892–1974), blues and boogie-woogie pianist * Big Bill Broonzy (1893–1958), blues musician * Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000), poet, first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Lincoln Cemetery (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) Lincoln Cemetery was founded in November 1877 by the Wesley Union African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (A.M.E. Zion Church), and is located at 201 South 30th Street in the Penbrook area of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. History The oldest extant Black cemetery in Harrisburg, Lincoln contains many people re-interred from the approximately five original African-American Burial Grounds in the city of Harrisburg. Members of the Wesley Union church, spread out through the Harrisburg Area, were active in the Underground Railroad. Civil War veterans, including Ephraim Slaughter, the last surviving Civil War Veteran of Harrisburg are buried in the cemetery. He served in the 37th regiment of the U.S. Colored Troops and the 3rd N.C. Colored Infantry. It is the site of one of the historical markers in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Restoration In July 2021, part of the descendant community of Lincoln Cemetery began clean-up, restoration and reclamation of the grounds. Notable people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Lincoln Cemetery (Montgomery, Alabama) Lincoln Cemetery may refer to: Lincoln Cemetery (Cook County), Illinois Lincoln Cemetery (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) Lincoln Cemetery was founded in November 1877 by the Wesley Union African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (A.M.E. Zion Church), and is located at 201 South 30th Street in the Penbrook area of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. History The oldest ext ... * Lincoln Cemetery (Montgomery, Alabama), final resting place of Rufus "Tee Tot" Payne, mentor to Hank Williams, Sr. {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]