Lincoln Cemetery (Blue Island)

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Lincoln Cemetery is a cemetery on Kedzie Avenue in Blue Island, Worth Township, Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is noteworthy for the number of famous African-American Chicagoans buried there, among them several blues and jazz musicians of note.

[edit] Notable graves

• Bessie Coleman First African-American aviator (died April 30 1926)
• Big Bill Broonzy Bluesman (died August 15 1958)
• Albert Ammons Jazz/Boogie-Woogie pianist (died December 2, 1949)
• Lillian Hardin Armstrong Jazz singer/pianist/second wife of Louis Armstrong (died 1971)
• Gwendolyn Brooks Poet (died December 3, 2000)
• Johnny Dodds Jazz clarinetist (died August 8, 1940)
• Warren "Baby" Dodds [Jazz]] drummer (died February 14, 1959)
• Jimmy Reed Bluesman (died August 29, 1976)