Homewood Memorial Gardens
Homewood Memorial Gardens is a privately-owned cemetery in unincorporated Cook County, Illinois. Many other unrelated cemeteries share variations of this name. This site may have formerly been called Oak Lawn Cemetery.
Potters' Field[]
The cemetery has long served as Cook County's potter's field, providing interment for indigents and unclaimed bodies. Press reports in 2011 speculated the cemetery may have as many as eight thousand such bodies, many in mass graves.[1]
Notable interments[]
- Phil Guy, musician[2]
- John A. Miller, roller coaster engineer[2]
- Frank Pinkard, actor[2]
- Frank "Son" Shields, musician[2]
- Jermaine Stewart, musician[2]
- Juice Wrld, musician[2]
See also[]
- Homewood Cemetery near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
References[]
- ^ Johnson, Clara (Feb 18, 2011). "Poor stacked in mass graves at Illinois cemetery". St Louis Post-Dispatch. Associated Press. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f "Homewood Memorial Gardens". Find-a-Grave. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
Categories:
- Cook County, Illinois
- Cemeteries in Illinois