Restvale Cemetery open 1927 is located at 11700 S. Laramie Ave. in
Alsip, Illinois
Alsip is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 19,063 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Chicago metropolitan area.
Alsip was settled in the 1830s by German and Dutch farmers. The village is named after Fran ...
, United States, a suburb southwest of the city of
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Chicago blues
Chicago blues is a form of blues music developed in Chicago, Illinois. It is based on earlier blues idioms, such as Delta blues, but performed in an urban style. It developed alongside the Great Migration of the first half of the twentieth cen ...
musicians, educators, and notable people are buried here.
Restvale and Burr Oak were the last two historically black cemeteries to open in the area; both had their first burials in 1927.
Notable interments
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John Henry Barbee
John Henry Barbee (November 14, 1905 – November 3, 1964)Wynn, Ron. John Henry Barbee: Biography Allmusic was an American blues singing, singer and guitarist. He was born in Henning, Tennessee. He claimed that he was born William George Tucker ...
(1905–1964), blues singer, guitarist
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David Barksdale
David Barksdale (born Donise David Barksdale; May 24, 1947 – September 2, 1974), also known as King David, was an American gangster and activist from Chicago, Illinois. Barksdale was the founder of the Black Disciples. He and Larry Hoov ...
(1947–1974), leader of the Black Disciples street gang
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Doctor Clayton
Doctor Clayton (born Peter Joe Clayton; April 19, 1898 – January 7, 1947) was an American blues singer and songwriter.
Biography
Clayton was born in Georgia (though he claimed he had been born in Africa) and moved to St. Louis as a child wi ...
(1898–1947), blues songwriter and singer
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Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton
Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton (born Clifton Nathaniel; October 13, 1922 – August 31, 1990) was an American professional basketball and baseball player. He is best known as one of the first African Americans to play in the National Basketb ...
(1926–1990), professional basketball player
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Jazz Gillum
William McKinley "Jazz" Gillum (September 11, 1902 or 1904 – March 29, 1966) was an American blues harmonica player.
Biography
Gillum was born in Indianola, Mississippi. He ran away from home at age seven and for the next few years lived i ...
(1904–1966), blues harmonica player
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Earl Hooker
Earl Zebedee Hooker (January 15, 1930 – April 21, 1970) was a Chicago blues guitarist known for his slide guitar playing. Considered a "musician's musician", he performed with blues artists such as Sonny Boy Williamson II, Junior Wells, a ...
(1929–1970), blues guitarist
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Big Walter "Shakey" Horton (1918–1981), blues harmonica player
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J.B. Hutto
Joseph Benjamin Hutto (April 26, 1926 – June 12, 1983) was an American blues musician. He was influenced by Elmore James and became known for his slide guitar playing and declamatory style of singing. He was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fa ...
(1926–1983), blues guitarist
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Little Johnny Jones
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(1924–1964), blues pianist and singer
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Samuel "Magic Sam" Maghett (1936–1969), blues musician
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Charles "Papa Charlie" McCoy (1909–1950), blues musician
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Kansas Joe McCoy (1905–1950), blues musician
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Romeo Nelson (1902–1974), boogie-woogie pianist
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James Burke "St. Louis Jimmy" Oden (1903–1977), blues musician, composer
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Pinetop Smith
Clarence Smith (June 11, 1904 – March 15, 1929), better known as Pinetop Smith or Pine Top Smith, was an American boogie-woogie style blues pianist. His hit tune "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie" featured rhythmic " breaks" that were an essential ...
(1904–1929), boogie-woogie pianist
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Willie "Big Eyes" Smith
Willie Lee "Big Eyes" Smith (January 19, 1936 – September 16, 2011) was an American electric blues vocalist, harmonica player, and drummer. He was best known for several stints with the Muddy Waters band beginning in the early 1960s.
Biograp ...
(1936–2011), Grammy Award-winning musician and vocalist
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Eddie Taylor
Eddie Taylor (January 29, 1923 – December 25, 1985) was an American electric blues guitarist and singer.
Biography
Born Edward Taylor in Benoit, Mississippi, as a boy Taylor taught himself to play the guitar. He spent his early years playing ...
(1923–1985), blues guitarist, songwriter
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Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor
Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor (April 12, 1915 – December 17, 1975) was a Chicago blues guitarist and singer.
Life and career
Taylor was born in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1915, though some sources say 1917. He first played the piano an ...
(1915–1975), blues musician
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(1883–1937), songwriter
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Luther Tucker
Luther Tucker (January 20, 1936 – June 18, 1993) was an American blues guitarist.
While soft-spoken and shy, Tucker made his presence known through his unique and clearly recognizable guitar style. Tucker helped to define the music known as ...
(1936–1993), blues guitarist
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Muddy Waters
McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer and musician who was an important figure in the post- war blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicag ...
(1913–1983), blues musician
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Johnny “Daddy Stove Pipe” Watson (1867–1963), blues musician
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Valerie Wellington
Valerie Wellington (November 14, 1959 – January 2, 1993) was an American singer who, in her short career, switched from singing opera to singing Chicago blues and electric blues. On her 1984 album, ''Million Dollar Secret'', she worked wit ...
(1959–1993), actress, opera singer, blues singer
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Tom Williams (1894–1937) Negro leagues pitcher, Chicago American Giants
See also
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List of United States cemeteries
References
External links
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Cemeteries in Illinois
Cemeteries in Cook County, Illinois
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