hmtl5 Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, US: Gage and Shook Families

 Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, US


Latitude: 41.9546042, Longitude: -87.66181159999996 | Click to get directions to Graceland Cemetery

Notes:
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/105864/graceland-cemetery
This cemetery has now added a grave search function to their website for grave locations. http://www.gracelandcemetery.org/burial-search/
Established in 1860 and designed by landscape architects, O. C. Simonds and H.W.S. Cleveland, Graceland is truly a haven in the city. Walk through the cemetery and pay your respects to pioneers like Dexter Graves and John Kinzie, early settlers in Chicago, and to business leaders such as developer Potter Palmer, railroad car manufacturer George Pullman and Cyrus Hall McCormick, who revolutionized American agriculture with the invention of the mechanical reaper and other farm machinery. Other Chicago "giants" buried here include civic planners and builders Daniel Burnham and Charles Wacker: Marshall Field, the retailing genius; Martin Ryerson, lumber merchant and developer; newspaper publisher Victor Lawson; meat packer Phillip D. Armour; and Carter Harrison, Sr., five term mayor of Chicago. World famous Chicago architects such as John Root, William Holabird, Louis Sullivan, Howard Van Doren Shaw, William LeBaron Jenney and Mies Van der Rohe are also buried here. The monuments and buildings designed by Sullivan, Holibird & Roche and McKim, Mead and White, among others are still viewed as primary examples of their work. As part of its ongoing restoration, Graceland recently completed construction of a new columbarium which is designed to reflect the enduring nineteenth century style of the Cemetery. Open to all, Chicagoans and tourists can relax amid the quiet beauty of Graceland's curving tree lined lanes. We welcome your visits and inquiries and ask only in return that your conduct, while our guest, demonstrates a respect for those who are buried here. O. C. Simonds is the person responsible for the beauty of Graceland Cemetery as we know it today. Simonds served as the Cemetery's superintendent and chief landscape architect from 1881 until 1898. He continued working at the Cemetery until his death in 1931. During his tenure, Simonds transformed Graceland into a masterpiece of Midwest landscape architecture for which the cemetery was awarded a medal of excellence at the Paris Exposition of 1900. Graceland was also honored by acceptance on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. Simonds vision for Graceland was of a beautifully landscaped park created by an abundance of plantings with carefully planned vistas and natural topographical and water features. The park reflects a celebration of life. Simonds' landscape designs represents the classical intergration of buildings and landscape, involving a number of distinctive monuments. This is the design that Simonds created, developed, and finally perfected in his long tenure as cemetery landscape architect. Because of Simonds vision and dedication, landscape historians regard Graceland Cemetery as "one of the most remarkable park-like cemeteries of the Western world."


Headstones

 Thumb Description Status Location Name (Died/Buried)
Bryant, Dwight S. Jr., and Henry B. 1894
Bryant, Dwight S. Jr., and Henry B. 1894
 
Located  1. Latitude: 41.9546042, Longitude: -87.6618116  Dwight S. Bryant, Jr. (d. 1894)
Henry B. Bryant (d. 1894)
 
Bryant, Henry W 1854-1925
Bryant, Henry W 1854-1925
 
Located  2. Latitude: 41.9546042, Longitude: -87.6618116  Henry Willis Bryant (d. 26 Jul 1925)
 
Henry Beadman Bryant 1824–1892
Henry Beadman Bryant 1824–1892
 
Located  3. Latitude: 41.9546042, Longitude: -87.6618116  Henry Beadman Bryant (d. 25 Apr 1892)
 
Lucy Ann Stratton Bryant 1832-1873
Lucy Ann Stratton Bryant 1832-1873
 
Located  4. Latitude: 41.9546042, Longitude: -87.6618116  Lucy Ann Stratton (d. 11 Feb 1873)
 
Lucy Ann Stratton Bryant 1832-1873 (2)
Lucy Ann Stratton Bryant 1832-1873 (2)
 
Located  5. Latitude: 41.9546042, Longitude: -87.6618116  Lucy Ann Stratton (d. 11 Feb 1873)
 
Pond, Abbie E 1868-1901
Pond, Abbie E 1868-1901
 
Located  6. Latitude: 41.9546042, Longitude: -87.6618116   
Requa, Antoinette 1864-1934
Requa, Antoinette 1864-1934
 
Located  7. Latitude: 41.9546042, Longitude: -87.6618116  Antoinette Kellog ReQua (d. 31 Jul 1934)
 

All Burials

 #   Last Name, Given Name(s)   Buried   Person ID 
1. Bryant, Dwight S. Jr.   d. 1894 Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location I17
2. Bryant, Henry B.   d. 1894 Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location I18
3. Bryant, Henry Beadman   d. 25 Apr 1892 Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location I208
4. Bryant, Henry Willis   bur. 29 Jul 1925 Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location I210
5. ReQua, Antoinette Kellog   bur. 02 Aug 1934 Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location I211
6. Stratton, Lucy Ann   d. 11 Feb 1873 Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location I209