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| type = | style = | owner = | size = | graves = | interments = | cremations = | leases = | website = | findagrave = | political = | nrhp = | embedded = }} Oak Woods Cemetery was established on February 12, 1853;〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.dignitymemorial.com/oak-woods-cemetery/en-us/history.page )〕 it covers an area of and is located at 1035 E. 67th Street in the Greater Grand Crossing area of Chicago's South Side. The first burials took place in 1860. Soon after the American Civil War, several thousand Confederate soldiers, prisoners who died at Camp Douglas, were buried here. A monument says that 6,000 soldiers were buried here and lists names of more than 4,000.〔Although the memorial, erected in the late 1880s, claims 6000 dead, this is unlikely to be true as significantly fewer (4,454) Confederate prisoners were known to have died at Camp Douglas. Wagner, Margaret E., Gallagher, Gary W. & Finkelman, Paul, eds., ''The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference''. Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, Inc., New York, NY, pp. 605–06, 609. 2009 edition. ISBN 978-1-4391-4884-6. 〕 These bodies had originally been buried at City Cemetery but were exhumed and reinterred together in a mass grave, which came to be known as Confederate Mound, reported to be the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere. ==Notable burials== * Cap Anson (1852–1922), Major League Baseball Hall of Fame * Faith Bacon (1910–1956), Burlesque dancer and actress * Frank Bacon (1864–1922) actor and playwright * Frank Butler (1872–1899) Pitcher and outfielder in pre-Negro Leagues baseball * James "Big Jim" Colosimo (1877–1920), mafioso * William Craig (1855–1902), first United States Secret Service agent to die on duty * Charles S. Deneen (1863–1940), politician * Thomas A. Dorsey (1899–1993), composer, the "father of gospel music" * Mircea Eliade (1907–1986), Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago * Enrico Fermi (1901–1954), physicist * Nancy Green (1834-1923), storyteller, cook, activist, and the first woman to portray Aunt Jemima * Jake Guzik (1886–1956), gangster and bookkeeper for Al Capone; aka "Greasy Thumb" * John Marshall Hamilton (1847–1905), 18th Governor of Illinois * William Draper Harkins (1873–1951), nuclear chemist * Monroe Heath (1827–1894), mayor of Chicago * John Christen Johansen (1876–1964), portraitist and landscape painter * Charles Johnson (1909–2006), pitcher and outfielder for the Chicago American Giants of the Negro League * Eunice W. Johnson (1916–2010), business magnate and spouse of John H. Johnson * John H. Johnson (1918–2005), founder and publisher of ''Ebony'' and ''Jet'' magazines, spouse of Eunice W. Johnson * Kenesaw Mountain Landis (1866–1944), Hall of Fame, First Commissioner of Baseball * Richard Loeb (1905–1936), crime figure – cremated here, ashes returned to family * Little Brother Montgomery (1906–1985), blues piano player and singer * Jesse Owens (1913–1980), Olympic track and field champion * Eugene Sawyer (1934–2008), second African-American mayor of Chicago (1987–1989) * J. Young Scammon (1812–1890), attorney, banker, newspaper publisher * Maud Slye (1879–1954), University of Chicago pathologist * Roebuck "Pops" Staples (1915–2000), gospel singer * Willie Stokes (1937–1986), Chicago mobster * William Hale Thompson, mayor of Chicago * June Travis (1914–2008), film actress * Herbert J. Tweedie (1864–1906), golf course architect * Bill Veeck (1914–1986), Major League Baseball owner – cremated here, ashes returned to family * Albertina Walker (1929–2010), singer, songwriter, "Queen of Gospel" * Harold Washington (1922–1987), lawyer, politician, first African American mayor of Chicago * Ida B. Wells (1862–1931), social reformer, civil rights activist * Junior Wells (1934–1998), blues musician * Ben Wilson (1967–1984), Chicago Simeon H.S., 1984–85 #1 Ranked high school basketball player in America * James Hutchinson Woodworth (1804–1869), mayor of Chicago * Otto Young (1844–1907), "Merchant Millionaire" of Chicago and Lake Geneva, WI. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oak Woods Cemetery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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