Re: [Harp-L] RIP?

[David Brown <nonidesign@xxxxxxxxx>]

Restvalle Cemetery is where Big Walter, Magic Sam and Muddy Waters (among
others) are buried. It's in Alsip, near the Burr Oak Cemetery.

I was doing business in the area a few years ago and stopped by Restvalle
after my meeting. Out fo respect I cleaned up the headstones for Big Walt,
Muddy, & Magic Sam. There were some items left on the headstones by recent
visitors. THere was a guitar pick on Muddy's and some loose coins on Big
Walt's. Watler's stone has a Marine Band etched in to it and Muddys has a
guitar etched into it. Pretty cool, actually.



On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Mick Zaklan <mzaklan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>   Given the Burr Oak Cemetery scandal (an estimated 300 hundred buried
> bodies dug up and dumped so the burial plots could be sold again), some
> list
> members may be wondering if any deceased African-American harmonica players
> from Chicago are "resting" there.  Little Walter, Big Walter, Junior Wells,
> and John Lee Williamson are all buried elsewhere.  I'm not sure about the
> legendary Rhythm Willie.  I've emailed Scott Dirks to see if he has any
> knowledge of who could have been buried on these grounds.
>   Burr Oak was Chicago's first African-American cemetery and many
> celebrities are theoretically still under the ground there; including
> Willie
> Dixon and Dinah Washington.
>
> Mick Zaklan
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