![]() Most all who died before the 1871 Chicago Fire, and those where the institution did not file an official death certificate, but only simply noted the death and burial in their records. There are many deaths at the Dunning institution that have been lost forever. The amount of information varied depending on the certifcate form and the year that the form was used. ![]() Some of those included city Board of Health physicians Certificate of Death, Return of Death from a Hospital, Certificate of Death from the Coroner, and others. There were many different forms over the years used to record the death of those buried at Dunning. Cook County built and opened a new facility for the poor in Oak Forest and at the same time opened a new cemetery which operated from about 1912-1958Ī few surviving Journal pages from the Cook County Institution at Dunning ![]() The bulk of this ledger contains the burial information of those interred at Cook County Cemetery at Oak Forest Illinois, the cemetery that superceded Cook County Cemetery at Dunning in 1912 when Dunning was sold to the State of Illinois and was renamed Chicago State Hospital. This ledger found and transcribed at the Oak Forest Hospital medical records department. Monthly death and burial entries and reports within the Journal of Proceedings, Board of Cook County Commissioners for the years 1866-1912Ĭontaining only a small amount of TB patient deaths (and burial information) at Dunning. This list has and continues to be compiled from a variety of sources including the following:ĭeath Certificates filed in Cook County and/or the State of Illinois 1878-1922Ĭook County Coroner's Reports 1878- August 1904 And then there are many microfilm reels that have yet to be searched. At least one thousand additional names will be added as these are waiting to be transcribed. As time permits these listings will and are being refined, corrected, and improved. This database currently contains many omissions, misspellings, and mechanical errors, but has been uploaded for the purpose of placing the names online and making them available, rather than letting them languish on one personal computer. There are currently just over 7800 entries at this time, but some 1600 do not have a name and are sadly unknown. of the City of Chicago (Chicago: Richard Edwards, 1871), 45 digital image, Internet Archive ( : accessed 30 April 2017).This is a preliminary upload of the name database. For a history of Chicago cemeteries, see Cemeteries on the Encyclopedia website. Once you have a cemetery name, you'll need to see if the cemetery is still in existence. If it was a Catholic burial, check the kiosk. Miles north of the city, on the Chicago and Milwaukee R.R. Records also available at the Newberry Library. German Lutheran Cemetery (of the St Paul's and St Emanuel's This cemetery vacated in 1865 and the lot owners who could be contacted wereĪllowed to choose new lots in Rosehill, Oak Woods, Calvary, and Graceland.įrom first record book of Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois,ġ860-1866 are available on FHL microfilm. Records, 1864-1987 are available on FHL microfilm.Ĭity Cemetery (also known as "Milliman Tract")Īvenue to Lincoln park, between North Clark and the lake. On North Side, between Schiller street and NorthĪvenue (probably associated with City Cemetery) Records, 1900-1987 availalable on FHL microfim. Ten miles north of the city on the Chicago and (See Development,ĭecline and Renewal of Old Jewish Cemetery) ![]() "Jewish Graceland." Records may be available from 1855 forward. North of city limits, on Green Bay road These four cemeteries are now known as One and a half miles north of city cemtery, near the lakeĪdjoining the Cemetery of the Congregation of the 1 Contact the current offices to see if records areĬemetery of the Congregation of the Sons of Below is a list of cemeteries that were included in theġ871 Chicago city directory. If your ancestor is buried in a cemetery that's still open, the best way to find a record is to contact that cemetery. To learn more about the book, check out this blog post. You can view the originals at the Illinois Regional Archives Depository at Northeastern Illinois University but the information is also available in The Chicago Genealogical Society's publication Chicago Cemetery Records 1847-1863: sexton's reports and certificates, treasurer receipts, deeds, and Another approach is to locate graves for family members who died after the Chicago Fire to see if a lot card is available.Ī small group of pre-Fire sexton's records survive. Alternate ways of checking include searching for death notices and obituaries, cemetery records, and church burial registers. The easiest way to determine burial locations is to obtain a death record but due to Chicago Fire losses, they aren't available before 1871.
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