We’ve got a good stock of Graveyards of Chicago, The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries in the FRPC warehouse – so we’re making them the featured item for day 7 of of the 2016 FRPC 12 Days of Christmas sale. The book was written by Matt Hucke and Ursula Biekski and is a second edition of a much smaller volume that was published in 1999. In fact, at 428 pages, it’s about twice the size of the extremely popular 1999 book.
The publication of this volume was extremely exciting for me, as I have Cook County ancestry, and many ancestors and relatives buried in Chicago area cemeteries. If you follow GenealogyBlog, you probably already know this, as I’ve blogged about it a number of times. I now have a book detailing the history and other information on the burial places of my folks. The book stresses the history, art and notable people buried in the cemeteries. It also lists the address or cross streets, as well as the establishment dates for each cemetery location. If they have a website, this is given. Near the back is an index that, being subject oriented, includes the names of all people mentioned in the book, as well a cemeteries and other subjects. I’ve found it difficult to lay this book aside, as the volume has so much new information of interest to me.
The authors identify a number of classifications of cemeteries, with detailed descriptions of each. Following the list, in alphabetical order:
- Churchyards
- City Cemeteries
- Frontier Graves
- Homestead Graveyards
- Independent Mausoleums or Columbaria
- Institutional Cemeteries
- Lawn-park Cemeteries
- Memorial Parks
- Military Cemeteries
- Native American Burial Grounds
- Potters Fields
- Rural Cemeteries
- To see his monument look around you Graves
The following is an expanded Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTIONS
by Matt Hucke
by Ursula Bielski
CITY CEMETERIES
City North
Chicago City Cemetery
Graceland Cemetery
Jewish Graceland and Hebrew Benevolent Cemeteries
Wunders Cemetery
St. Boniface Catholic Cemetery
Rosehill Cemetery
St. Henry Catholic Cemetery
Bohemian National Cemetery
St. Luke Cemetery
Montrose Cemetery
City West
All Saints Polish National Catholic Cemetery
Saint Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery
St. Johannes Cemetery (Removed 2001)
Rest Haven Cemetery
Robinson Woods Indian Burial Ground
Read-Dunning Memorial Park
Irving Park Cemetery
Acacia Park Cemetery
Westlawn Cemetery
Mount Olive Cemetery
Union Ridge Cemetery
Zion Gardens Cemetery
City South
Oakwoods Cemetery
Zirngibl Grave
Mount Greenwood Cemetery
Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery
Mount Hope Cemetery
St. Casimir Catholic Cemetery
SUBURBAN CEMETERIES
Metro North
Calvary Catholic Cemetery
Church of The Holy Comforter
Fort Sheridan Post Cemetery
New Light Cemetery
Memorial Park Cemetery and Mausoleum
St. Adelbert Catholic Cemetery
Sunset Memorial Gardens
All Saints Catholic Cemetery
Shalom Memorial Park and Randhill Park Cemetery
Metro West
Eden Memorial Park
St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleums
Elmwood Cemetery and Mausoleum
Forest Home Cemetery (including German Waldheim)
Waldheim Cemetery
Forest Home:West
Forest Home:East
Waldheim Jewish Cemeteries
Woodlawn Memorial Park
Concordia Cemetery
Altenheim Cemetery
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mount Emblem Cemetery
Arlington Cemetery
Elm Lawn Memorial Park
Oakridge Glen Cemeteries
Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery
Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery
Chapel Hill Gardens West Cemetery
Hinsdale Animal Cemetery and Crematory
Illinois Pet Cemetery
Bluff City Cemetery
Metro South
Resurrection Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleums
Bethania Cemetery
Lithuanian National Cemetery
Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens, West
Evergreen Cemetery
St. Mary Catholic Cemetery & Mausoleums
Cedar Park Cemetery
Lincoln Cemetery
Beverly Cemetery
Oak Hill Cemetery
Holy Sepulcher Catholic Cemetery & Mausoleum
Chapel Hill Gardens South Cemetery
Restvale Cemetery
Hazelgreen Cemetery
Burr Oak Cemetery
St. Benedict Catholic Cemetery
Bachelors Grove Cemetery
St. James Catholic Cemetery
Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleums
BURIALS OUTSIDE OF CEMETERIES
BURIALS IN OUTLYING SITES
CEMETERY RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION, by Angie Johnson
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Scattered through the book are sidebar pages dealing with a number of cemetery and burial topics. I found all them them to be very interesting. Following a a list of titles for these pages:
- The Cemetery Lady (Helen Sclair 1930-2009)
- After the Fire: The Trouble With Cremains
- St. Henry Catholic Cemetery
- Jumpin that Train: Lincolns Last, Long Haul
- Together Forever: The Many Ties That Bind
- Material Considerations
- The Remains of the Day: the Crash Site of Flight 191
- 50 (Thousand) Ways to Leave Your Loved Ones: Burial Customs To Die For
- Strong and Silent: The Catholic Cemeteries of Chicago
- Modern Woodmen Of America
- Freeze! A Chilling Alternative to Checking Out
- Ceme-Prairies: The Silver Lining of Abandonment
Order Graveyards of Chicago at the Family Roots Publishing website.
If you have Cook County Ancestry, you might be interested in the following titles also:
does it list the names listed in each cemetery
No – only famous folks show up in the book by name. Cemetery descriptions, and history are included, however.