Burr Oak Cemetery is a 150-acre (0.61 km2) cemetery located in unincorporated Cook County, Illinois, adjacent to Alsip, a suburb slightly southwest of Chicago. As one of the few cemeteries focused on the needs of the African-American community, it is the final resting place of many black celebrities, including Chicago blues musicians, athletes, and other notables.
Read more about Burr Oak Cemetery: History of Burr Oak, Burr Oak Scandal
Famous quotes containing the words burr, oak and/or cemetery:
“Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)