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Oakridge Cemetery
Oakridge Cemetery is a cemetery located in the village of Hillside, Illinois, Hillside, near Chicago. It is the largest non-sectarian mausoleum in Cook County, Illinois, Cook County, Illinois. The cemetery is located at 4301 West Roosevelt Road, Hillside, IL 60162. Notable burials * Beverly Blossom – (1926–2014) * Milton Brunson, Milton R. Brunson, gospel singer (1929–1997) * Chester Burnett, aka Howlin' Wolf – (1910–1976) * Colonel Daniel Cameron – (1828–1879) * James Carter of James Carter and the Prisoners – (1926–2003) * Tyrone Davis – (1938–2005) * Harold Gray – (1894–1968) * Erv Lange – (1887–1971) * Bob Reynolds (American football, born 1939), Bob Reynolds, American football player – (1939–1996) * Jimmy Slagle – (1873–1956) * Tuffy Stewart – (1883–1934) * Darryl Stingley – (1951–2007) References {{reflist External links Official site Cemeteries in Cook County, Illinois ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War, defeating the Confederate States of America and playing a major role in the End of slavery in the United States, abolition of slavery. Lincoln was born into poverty in Kentucky and raised on the American frontier, frontier. He was self-educated and became a lawyer, Illinois state Illinois House of Representatives, legislator, and U.S. representative. Angered by the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854, which opened the territories to slavery, he became a leader of the new History of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party. He reached a national audience in the Lincoln–Douglas debates, 1858 Senate campaign debates against Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln won the 1860 United States presidential election, 1860 presidential election, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Carter And The Prisoners
James Carter (December 18, 1925 – November 26, 2003) was an American singer. He was born a Mississippi sharecropper and as a young man was several times an inmate of the Mississippi prison system. He was paid $20,000, and credited, for a four-decade-old lead-vocalist performance in a prison work song used in the 2000 film ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' Biography Early life In 1959, Carter was a prisoner in Camp B of Parchman Farm, Mississippi State Penitentiary near Lambert, Quitman County, Mississippi, when Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins recorded him in stereo sound leading a group of prisoners singing "Po' Lazarus", an African-American "bad man ballad" (which is also a work song), while chopping logs in time to the music. The recording and an iconic cover photograph of the prisoners in striped uniforms were issued on volume nine, ''Bad Man Ballads'', in Alan Lomax's 1959 Southern Journey LP series on Prestige Records. Legacy Decades later, the recording was licensed for use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuffy Stewart
Charles Eugene "Tuffy" Stewart (July 31, 1883 – November 18, 1934) was a Major League Baseball outfielder. Stewart played for the Chicago Cubs in and . In 11 career games, he had 1 hit in 9 at-bats. He batted and threw left-handed. Stewart was born and died in Chicago, Illinois Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of Unite .... External links 1883 births 1934 deaths Chicago Cubs players Major League Baseball outfielders Baseball players from Chicago Indianapolis Indians players Springfield Reapers players Dayton Veterans players 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-baseball-outfielder-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Slagle
James Franklin Slagle (July 11, 1873 – May 10, 1956), nicknamed both "Rabbit" and "Shorty", was an American professional baseball player who played as an outfielder in Major League Baseball from 1899 to 1908. In his ten major league seasons, he played for four teams, all in the National League. Officially, he was in height and weighed . He batted left-handed and threw right-handed. Biography Slagle began his professional career in minor league baseball in 1895. In 1898, he won the Western League batting title with a .378 average. He spent four seasons in the minor leagues before signing with the Washington Senators in 1899. He played one season in Washington, D. C. before signing with the Philadelphia Phillies when the Senators folded. Over the next two season, he played for the Phillies and, for a short time, the Boston Beaneaters. In 1902, he signed with the Chicago Cubs, and stayed with the team for seven seasons. He was the Cubs' starting center fielder for three of their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Reynolds (American Football, Born 1939)
Robert Louis Reynolds (January 22, 1939 – October 10, 1996) was an American football player, who played chiefly with the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League as an offensive tackle. He was an all-conference player during his college football career at Bowling Green State University, and a three-time Pro Bowl player in an eleven year NFL career. Early life Reynolds was born on January 22, 1939, in Nashville, Tennessee. He grew up in the Cleveland, Ohio area, where he played high school football at John Adams High School. Reynolds was the oldest of 12 children. His father Forrest Reynolds, a machine operator, was 6 ft 8 in tall and weighed 280 pounds, while his mother Venell (Blackwell) Reynolds was 6 ft 2 in. Reynolds himself was 6 ft 5 in and weighed 265 pounds during his playing days. College He attended Bowling Green State University (BGSU) for college, graduating in 1964. He was on the football, wrestling and track teams. The Falcons lost only three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erv Lange
Erwin Henry "Erv" Lange (August 12, 1887 – April 24, 1971) was a pitcher for the Chicago Whales The Chicago Whales were a professional baseball team based in Chicago. They played in the Federal League, a short-lived "third Major League", in 1914 and 1915. They originally lacked a formal nickname, and were known simply as the "Chicago Fed ... professional baseball team in 1914. External links 1887 births 1971 deaths Chicago Whales players 20th-century American sportsmen Major League Baseball pitchers People from Forest Park, Illinois Baseball players from Cook County, Illinois {{US-baseball-pitcher-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Gray
Harold Lincoln Gray (January 20, 1894 – May 9, 1968) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the newspaper comic strip ''Little Orphan Annie''. Early life Harold Gray was born in Kankakee, Illinois on January 20, 1894, to Estella Mary () and Ira Lincoln Gray, a farmer. In 1913, he got his first newspaper job at a Lafayette daily. He could trace his American ancestry back to 17th-century settlers. He grew up on farms in Illinois and Indiana, and worked in construction to pay his college tuition at Purdue University. He graduated with a degree in engineering by 1917. Gray approached cartoonist John T. McCutcheon for advice on breaking into the cartooning field. He could not immediately get cartooning work, but McCutcheon's influence got him work as a reporter for the ''Chicago Tribune'' before he enlisted in the military for World War I, where he was a bayonet instructor for six months. Discharged from the military, he returned to the ''Chicago Tribune'' and sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyrone Davis
Tyrone Davis (born Tyrone D. Fettson or Tyrone D. Branch, October 3, 1937 – February 9, 2005) (although many sources have his date of birth as May 4, 1938), was an American blues and soul singer with a long list of hit records over more than 20 years. Davis had three number 1 hits on the ''Billboard'' R&B chart: " Can I Change My Mind" (1968), " Turn Back the Hands of Time" (1970), and " Turning Point" (1975). Biography Tyrone Fettson was born in Greenville, Mississippi, United States, to Willie Branch and Ora Lee Jones. Some sources give his date of birth as May 4, 1938, but researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc state that his funeral notice gives the October 1937 date. He moved with his father to Saginaw, Michigan, before moving to Chicago in 1959. Working as a valet/chauffeur for blues singer Freddie King, he started singing in local clubs where he was discovered by record executive/musician Harold Burrage. His early records for small record labels in the city, bill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colonel Daniel Cameron
Camp Douglas, in Chicago, Illinois was one of the largest Union Army prisoner-of-war camps for Confederate soldiers taken prisoner during the American Civil War. Although not alone in this distinction, it is sometimes described as "The North's Andersonville." Based south of the city on the prairie, it was also used as a training and detention camp for Union soldiers. The Union Army first used the camp in 1861 as an organizational and training camp for volunteer regiments. It became a prisoner-of-war camp in early 1862. Later in 1862 the Union Army again used Camp Douglas as a training camp. In the fall of 1862, the Union Army used the facility as a detention camp for paroled Confederate prisoners (these were Union soldiers who had been captured by the Confederacy and sent North under an agreement that they would be held temporarily while formal prisoner exchanges were worked out). Camp Douglas became a permanent prisoner-of-war camp from January 1863 to the end of the war in M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States asserts sovereignty over five Territories of the United States, major island territories and United States Minor Outlying Islands, various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest land area and List of countries and dependencies by population, third-largest population, exceeding 340 million. Its three Metropolitan statistical areas by population, largest metropolitan areas are New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howlin' Wolf
Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910January 10, 1976), better known by his stage name Howlin' Wolf, was an American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player. He was at the forefront of transforming acoustic Delta blues into electric Chicago blues, and over a four-decade career, recorded blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and psychedelic rock. He is regarded as one of the most influential blues musicians of all time. Born into poverty in Mississippi, Burnett became a protégé of Delta blues musician Charley Patton in the 1930s. In the Deep South, he began a solo career by performing with other notable blues musicians of the day. By the end of the decade, he had established himself in the Mississippi Delta. Following a number of legal issues, a stint in prison, and Army service, he was recruited by A&R man Ike Turner to record for producer Sam Phillips in Memphis. His first record "Moanin' at Midnight" (1951) led to a record deal with Chess Records in Chicago. Between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton Brunson
Milton R. Brunson (June 28, 1929 – April 1, 1997) was an American gospel musician and former pastor and music director of Christ Tabernacle Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois. Brunson released his first musical project in 1988, ''Available to You''. The title track has become a gospel standard. He won a Grammy Award for Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album at the 37th Annual Grammy Awards, while he was nominated two other times. He had ten albums that have charted on the ''Billboard'' Gospel Albums chart over the course of his career and some even after his death. He received a nomination for the Best Gospel Album, Group or Choir at the 1988 Soul Train Music Awards and for Best Gospel Album at the 1993 Soul Train Music Awards. Biography Early life Brunson was born on June 28, 1929, in Chicago, Illinois. His father was a stockyard worker, while his mother was a music and religion teacher. After he graduated from McKinley High School, he pursued a career in music by getting t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
