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Showmen's Rest in Forest Park, Illinois, is a 750 plot section of Woodlawn Cemetery mostly for circus performers owned by the Showmen's League of America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first performers and show workers that were buried there are in a mass grave from when between 56 and 61 employees of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus were interred.
Biddy Mason, nurse and philanthropist, was one of the well known figures to be buried at the cemetery, in 1891. There is a section called the “Showmen’s Rest” in which 400 carnival workers and circus performers are buried by a memorial that is decorated with a lion. It was established by the Pacific Coast Showmen’s Association in 1922.
Burials at Acacia Park Cemetery, Norwood Park Township (6 P) B. ... Showmen's Rest This page was last edited on 11 April 2020, at 04:58 (UTC). Text ...
Five days later, fifty-three of those killed were buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, [6] at the intersection of Cermak Road and Des Plaines Avenue in Forest Park, Illinois, in a section set aside as Showmen's Rest, which had been purchased by the Showmen's League of America only a few months earlier.
TAMPA — Since 1888, three acres along the 3500 block of North Boulevard have been designated a final resting place, first as part of the city’s larger Woodlawn Cemetery and today as the ...
Woodlawn Cemetery (West Palm Beach, Florida) Woodlawn Cemetery (Carbondale, Illinois), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Jackson County, Illinois; Woodlawn Cemetery (Forest Park, Illinois), including Showmen's Rest; Woodlawn Cemetery Gates and Shelter, Washington, Iowa, listed on the NRHP in Washington County, Iowa
A portion of Mt. Olivet Cemetery was set aside as Showmen's Rest: buried here were circus owner D. R. Miller and rodeo cowboys Freckles Brown, Lane Frost, and Todd Whatley. Late 20th century to present
Many victims were burned beyond recognition. Most are buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois in a section set aside as Showmen's Rest. Only five victims had marked graves; the rest were burned too badly to be identified and buried in unmarked graves. [3] A portrait of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus from their 1921 season.