Oak Woods Cemetery

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Oak Woods Cemetery was established in 1854 at 1035 E. 67th Street in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The first burials took place in 1860 and during the American Civil War, six thousand Confederate soldiers, prisoners of war who died at Camp Douglas (Chicago), were buried together here in a mass grave. Known as the "Confederate Mound," a monument has been erected in their memory.

[edit] Notable burials

Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870-1940), newspaper publisher
Cap Anson (1852-1922), Hall of Fame Major League Baseball Player
Ida B. Wells (1862-1931), social reformer, civil rights activist
Willa Beatrice Brown (1906-1992), African American aerospace pioneer
James Colosimo (1877-1920), mafioso, "Big Jim" Colosimo
William Craig (1855-1902), first secret Service agent to die on duty
Charles S. Deneen (1863-1940), politician
Thomas A. Dorsey (1899-1993), composer, the "father of gospel music"
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), physicist
Jake Guzik (1886-1956), gangster, "Greasy Thumb"
William Draper Harkins (1873-1951), nuclear chemist
Charles Johnson (1909-2006), pitcher and outfielder for the Chicago American Giants of the Negro League
John Johansen (1876-1964), painter
Kenesaw Mountain Landis (1866-1944), Hall of Fame, First Commissioner of Baseball
Little Brother Montgomery (c.1906-1985), blues piano player and singer
Jesse Owens (1913-1980), Olympic champion
Roebuck 'Pops' Staples (1915-2000), gospel singer
Bill Veeck (1914-1986), Major League Baseball owner
Harold Washington (1922-1987), lawyer, politician, first African American Mayor of Chicago
Junior Wells (1934-1998), blues musician