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	Burr Oak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Burr Oak, Michigan and Burr Oak Township, Michigan
		Burr Oak Cemetery and Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Burr_Oak (100 words)

	Cemeteries in Northern Illinois / Burr Oak Cemetery, Leroy Township, Boone County Illinois / ComPortOne of Rockford ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Cemeteries in Northern Illinois / Burr Oak Cemetery, Leroy Township, Boone County Illinois / ComPortOne of Rockford Illinois
		Burr Oak Cemetery is located on Englehart Rd, 1/4 mile east off Burr Oak Rd [3 mi S of the Wisconsin state line.] Note: Burr Oak Rd runs north off Hunter Rd in Leroy Township.
		The cemetery lies on the north side of the road.
	www.comportone.com /cpo/cemeteries/illinois/boonecounty/burroak.htm (187 words)

	Burr Oak, Iowa
		Burr Oak in Winneshiek County, Iowa, is a small village on Highway 52 about three or four miles south of the Minnesota state line.
		This is the Burr Oak Mercantile, which used to be the "general store" when I was a boy, just like what you see in TV Westerns.
		Located at the north end of Burr Oak, it was built near a bend in Silver Creek which meanders through the town.
	www.geocities.com /bprice1949/burroak.html (809 words)

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		Burial was in the Burr Oak Cemetery, Burr Oak.
		The surviving children are Mrs Cora Milliman of Burr Oak, Otis Hackett of East Colon, Burt Hackett of Burr Oak, Mrs Nina Sweezey of Sturgis and Guy Hackett of Sturgis.
		She was born 19 July 1928, in Burr Oak, a daughter of Don and Leona (Eberhard) Perry, and graduated from Burr Oak High School in 1946.
	ftp.rootsweb.com /pub/usgenweb/mi/stjoseph/burroak/cemeteries/b60002.txt (5432 words)

	BurrOakKansas
		Burr Oak is located in Jewell County in North Central Kansas.
		Burr Oak is known for the abundant hunting and fishing resources close by.
		Burr Oaks' first school house was built in 1877.
	www.burroakkansas.homestead.com (572 words)

	Burr Oak Cemetery and Restvale Cemetery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Burr Oak and the Restvale cemeteries are located in Alsip, Illinois a suburb about 20 miles southwest of the city of Chicago.
		Burr Oak Cemetery is located at 4400 West 127th Street in Alsip.
		Restvale Cemetery is located at 11700 S. Laramie Street in Alsip.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Burr_Oak_Cemetery_and_Restvale_Cemetery (187 words)

	CASDE \| Burr -- Otoe County
		Burr can identify its beginnings to those of other "railroad-towns" that were established along the lines being built out across the prairie.
		A post office was established on July 15, 1869, named "Burr Oak," for the oak groves in the area.
		Rebuilt of lumber on higher ground, the little white church was moved to Burr in 1891 using "home-made equipment." Beer kegs were used to help float it over the creek west of town.
	www.casde.unl.edu /history/counties/otoe/burr (746 words)

	Archived Weblog Entry - 05/05/2004: "Former Negro Leagues players to be honored in summer ceremony"
		Jeremy Krock, a baseball fan whose driving force is a deep sense of familial commitment, last year journeyed to Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill., a suburb about 20 miles southwest of Chicago, to visit the gravesite of Crutchfield, a four-time All-Star outfielder in the Negro Leagues.
		To his amazement, he was informed by the cemetery that another Negro Leagues player was buried at Burr Oak in an unmarked grave: John Donaldson, one of the best left-handed pitchers in Negro Leagues history.
		Burr Oak and its parent company, Perpetua Inc., have been extremely helpful to the cause, Krok said, donating labor for the installation and the dedication, as well as donating a new marker for Crutchfield's wife.
	baseballguru.com /archives/entries/00000783.htm (1114 words)

	Burr Oak Cemetery, St. Joseph Co., MI
		Burr Oak Cemetery, St. Joseph Co., MI Burr Oak Township
		This information was extracted from the Thursday, 21 January 1892 edition of the Burr Oak Acorn.
		Burnside, Thelma R...Plot 13, Sec 7, Grave 10, buried 18 December 1993, lived in Burr Oak, married, 88 years, died 15 December 1993 Burnside, Willard P...buried 20 December 1970, lived in Burr Oak, single, 29, died 18 December 1970, severe head injuries, auto accident, son of Clesson Burnside and Thelma R Burnside
	members.tripod.com /~tfred/cemburrb3.html (1346 words)

	Miscellaneous Jewell County, Kansas Obituaries
		Interment was in the Washington Cemetery, south of Byron.
		Interment of cremains was in Randall Cemetery, Randall.
		Burial was in the Lake Cemetery, rural Republic.
	www.genealogybuff.com /ks/ks-jewell-obits2.htm (9665 words)

	Burr Oak Cemetery: Emmett Till
		Emmett was staying with his uncle Mose "Preacher" Wright (also buried at Burr Oak) near Money, Mississippi, an area of crushing poverty where racial tensions were already high.
		While bragging to his cousins and other local youths that he had a white girlfriend at home, one of them challenged him to talk to a white woman in a store.
		She is buried in the most prominent location at Burr Oak, just inside the entrance, and near the site of the future Emmett Till Museum.
	www.graveyards.com /IL/Cook/burroak/till.html (440 words)

	Southern Ohio Backpacking Society
		Burr Oak has many hiking trails and 4 boat docks, but the backpacking trail is something of a disappointment.
		My advice to Burr Oak Trail Crew, copy the trail design from the other side of the lake (the lodge side) and build a new trail.
		I was not very impressed with the trail building that Burr Oak State Park has implemented, but I do compliment them with their effort to open up more of the backcountry in the park to people who have the initiative to go see it.
	www.bright.net /~mcghee/trips/trips-burroak.html (798 words)

	Find A Grave - Burr Oak Cemetery
		Burr Oak Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
		Born the seventh of fourteen children, his greatest influence was his mother, who turned everything she said into rhymes and he learned to do the same.
		After seeing Billie Holiday perform, she was influenced to start singing the blues and thereafter performed in local clubs, where local musicians dubbed her "Queen of the Blues." At age 18, she was discovered by Lionel Hampton and was hired to front his band.
	www.findagrave.com /php/famous.php?page=cem&FScemeteryid=104954 (1340 words)

	25 Sept 2004 - Crutchfield, Donaldson & Taylor get grave markers
		Of the 20 former Negro Leaguers buried at Burr Oak, one of two Chicago-area cemeteries where African-Americans were interred at the time, eight others are in unmarked graves.
		Carolyn Towns, director of operations for Burr Oak, said about 100 people are expected at Sunday's ceremony in the cemetery where singer Dinah Washington and teen murder victim EmmettTill are buried.
		The situation at Burr Oak is not unusual, Lester said.
	www.nlbpa.com /25sept2004.html (995 words)

	Illinois Genealogy Trails History & Genealogy presents: Worth Township, Cook County, IL
		The cemetery saw its first burial that year and it was in steady use until 1965, when things began to drop off.
		In the middle 1800's, the cemetery became known as "Bachelor's Grove", although history is a bit cloudy as to how this name came about.
		Some have suggested that near the cemetery was a settlement of immigrants, mostly German, who had helped to build the Illinois-Michigan Canal.
	genealogytrails.com /ill/cook/worthtwp.html (508 words)

	Burr Cook's Ancestors, Ahnentafel
		Burr COOK "Buster" was born on 3 May 1934 in Canandaigua.
		Esther Pamelia GATES was born on 30 Jul 1877 in Hopewell, Ontario County, N. She died on 11 Mar 1973 in Buffalo, N. The cause of death was Old Age.
		Ebenezer BURR was born on 9 Jul 1712 in Norfolk, Conn..
	www.burrcook.com /history/myanc.htm (7655 words)

	Burr Oak township, Winneshiek County, Iowa (IA) Detailed Profile
		Burr Oak township, Winneshiek County, Iowa (IA) Detailed Profile
		Churches in Burr Oak township include: Burr Oak Lutheran Church, Burr Oak United Methodist Church, Saint Agnes Church.
		Cemeteries: Metcalf Cemetery, Burr Oak Cemetery, Saint Agnes Cemetery.
	www.city-data.com /township/Burr-Oak-Winneshiek-IA.html (126 words)

	Burr Oak Cemetery, St. Joseph Co., MI
		Mr Link was born in Burr Oak, March 23, 1905, a son of L. Lee and Eva (Oliver) Link, and with the exception of a few years in Florida, had been a Burr Oak resident all his life.
		Mr Link was employed at Boyer Lumber Co in Burr Oak 20 years, had spent five years in the grocery business, and for the past several years was sexton of Burr Oak Township cemeteries.
		Mr Link was active in the Burr Oak United Methodist Church and in the St Petersburg United Methodist Church while a resident in Florida.
	members.tripod.com /~tfred/cemburrl.html (3849 words)

	Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Memorial Dedication Ceremony is scheduled for Sunday, September 26, 2004 at Burr Oak Cemetary at NOON.
		So, working through the managers of the cemetery, he began an effort to raise funds for a new marker.
		While doing some research, the cemetery discovered that two other notable players, John Donaldson and "Candy Jim" Taylor, were also interred at Burr Oak with graves suffering without markers.
	www.nlbm.com /NS/ArticleDetail.cfm?ArticleID=43 (379 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Meeker County, Minn.
		This site only lists about 5,000 cemeteries where politicians are known to have been buried (the number grows gradually as more research is done).
		Interment.Net (Cemetery Records Online), which has collected millions of interment records from thousands of cemeteries.
		Assignment of birthplaces, deathplaces, and cemeteries to counties is subject to error.
	politicalgraveyard.com /geo/MN/MK.html (533 words)

	Chicago Defender / Local
		Cemetery workers lower the vault believed to contain the remains of Emmett Till at the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill., Wednesday, June 1.
		The hearing was to consider a resolution she introduced to the County Board in May to receive a status report on the U.S. Department of Justice's request for the exhumation.
		She proceeded with the hearing, she said, despite the exhumation at Burr Oak Cemetery.
	www.chicagodefender.com /page/local.cfm?ArticleID=951 (1379 words)

	Rural cemetary vandalized over the Memorial Day weekend
		She resented the violation of the sacredness of the cemetery, and how the incident discouraged her son from honoring the graves of his relatives.
		Jeff Norlin, the chief deputy for Meeker County, agreed, saying cemetery vandalism was a "cowardly act." Norlin said the Burr Oak incident is under investigation by the Meeker County Sheriff's Department.
		The cemetery holds a voluntary clean-up day each spring, when most of the maintenance for the grounds is done.
	www.paynesvillearea.com /news/headlinesarticles/archives/060700/cemetery.html (633 words)

	Emmett Till's body exhumed Chicago Sun-Times - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The body of 14-year old Emmett Till was removed from Burr Oak Cemetery this morning, as the investigation into his 1955 death finally nears its end.
		Shortly after 10:30, the truck made its way from the Alsip cemetery to the Cook County medical examiner's office, where the medical examiner, Dr. Edmund Donahue, was to perform an autopsy.
		The body is to be returned to Burr Oak Cemetery, where Till's mother, Mamie Till Mobley, was buried following her 2003 death, by Monday.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20050601/ai_n14662848 (680 words)

	After 50 Years, Emmett Till's Body Is Exhumed - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Three relatives of Emmett, the 14-year-old fl Chicagoan whose killing helped galvanize the civil rights movement, gathered before dawn at the Burr Oak Cemetery in the town of Alsip, listened to a preacher say a prayer and stood by as a backhoe dug into the earth.
		Before noon, a concrete vault that contained the metal coffin bearing the remains was driven off on a flatbed truck, surrounded by squad cars, to the office of the Cook County medical examiner.
		At the cemetery in Alsip, the mood was tense and somber on Wednesday morning.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/06/02/national/02till.html?ex=1275364800&en=3bab879de32d401b&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (913 words)

	Jewell County Kansas Genealogy Queries May - June 1999
		Date: Monday, June 21, 1999 03:31 PM Looking for family info abt Rev William Henry Hill of Burr Oak, Jewell Co., and his wife, Elda (Dobbins), parents of Adeline Hill, born 31 Aug 1885 in Burr Oak.
		According to my records, "Stella" was buried in the Caldwell Cemetery, Jewell Co., KS in 1887.
		I'm not sure which volume the Burr Oak Cemetery is in.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /kansas/genweb/jewell/1999/q99-5.html (745 words)

	May
		Interment was in Oak Lawn Cemetery in Cresco.
		Interment was in Holy Trinity Catholic Church Cemetery in Protivin.
		Leonard Milton Wicks was born Easter Sunday, March 31, 1918 in Bluffton Township, Winneshiek County, the son of Claude and Olive (Olson) Wicks.
	www.pafways.org /obituaries/crescotimesplaindealer/2003/may.htm (991 words)

	Obituaries: Surnames starting with 'I-M'
		Athens Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, of which the deceased was a member, will be in charge of the commital service at the grave in Burr Oak cemetery, Athens.
		Interment will be in Burr Oak Cemetery, Athens, with graveside prayers Friday at 11:30 a.m.
		A large concourse of friends followed the remains to the Odd Fellows' Cemetery where the Odd Fellows and Woodmen Lodges performed the last sad rites over all that was mortal of Diedrich Meyer.
	www.outmangenealogy.org /obits/obits-m.html (8818 words)

	Archived Weblog Entry - 09/20/2004: "Negro League news: Public invited to dedication" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The public is invited to an important Negro League Baseball event, scheduled to take place at Chicago Burr Oak Cemetery on Sunday, September 26.
		The cemetery, along with members of the Society of American Baseball Research, is hosting a memorial dedication ceremony for three Negro Leaguers greats — Jimmie Crutchfield, John Donaldson and "Candy Jim" Taylor.
		Many noted African Americans are interred at Chicago Burr Oak Cemetery.
	baseballguru.com /archives/entries/00001040.htm (176 words)

	Adams County, Wisconsin Genealogy South Burr Oak Methodist Cemetery
		Location: South Burr Oak Cemetery is located in Section 36 in Richfield Township, Adams County, Wisconsin.
		It is located at the junction of 1st Drive and County Highway G, about 2 ½ miles south of Wisconsin State Highway 21 and about 1/3 of a mile north of the junction of County Highways G and J. Gordon and Mary Lee Klaus transcribed this cemetery in August of 2006.
		This cemetery was not set up in a true east/west direction; therefore some of the headstones/graves are slightly turned so that the head of the graves are in a true westerly direction.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~adams6/cem28.html (4078 words)

	The Negro Leagues Courier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Chicago Burr Oak Cemetery and their parent company, Perpetua Incorporated have been very helpful and generous in allowing me to proceed with this endeavor.
		Carolyn Townes at Chicago Burr Oak Cemetery, 773-233-5676, is also available to field inquiries.
		In addition, the owners of the cemetery have graciously agreed to match the marker of Mr.
	home.fuse.net /NLCommittee/dec03 (1984 words)

	SalJournal.com - Front Page
		Burr Oak resident has played mournful song on Memorial Day for fifty years
		BURR OAK Â— For the 50th straight year, Richard Gates will play Â“TapsÂ” at Burr OakÂ’s annual Memorial Day ceremony.
		When he returned home to Burr Oak, he joined both the American Legion in Burr Oak and the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Mankato.
	www.saljournal.com /?module=displaystory&story_id=7834&format=html (206 words)

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