Restvale Cemetery
Restvale Cemetery is in Alsip, Illinois, United States, a suburb southwest of the city of Chicago. A number of Chicago blues musicians, educators, and notable people are buried there.
Restvale and Burr Oak were the last two historically black cemeteries to open in the area; both had their first burials in 1927.
The cemetery is owned by Willie Carter, who through the company Cemecare also co-owns the Burr Oak and the Cedar Park cemeteries.
Notable interments
- John Henry Barbee, blues singer, guitarist
- David Barksdale, leader of the Black Disciples street gang
- Doctor Clayton, blues songwriter and singer
- Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton, professional basketball player
- Lee Cooper, blues guitarist
- Kermit Dial, professional Negro League baseball player
- William Ezell, blues, jazz, ragtime and boogie-woogie pianist and occasional singer
- Jazz Gillum, blues harmonica player
- Arvella Gray, blues, folk and gospel singer and guitarist
- Hip Linkchain, Chicago blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
- Earl Hooker, blues guitarist
- Big Walter "Shakey" Horton, blues harmonica player
- J.B. Hutto, blues guitarist
- Little Johnny Jones, blues pianist and singer
- Moody Jones, Chicago blues musician
- Sammy Lawhorn, Chicago blues guitarist
- Bonnie Lee, Chicago blues singer
- Cripple Clarence Lofton, boogie-woogie pianist and singer
- Willie James Lyons, blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
- Samuel "Magic Sam" Maghett, blues musician
- Charles "Papa Charlie" McCoy, blues musician
- Kansas Joe McCoy, blues musician
- Romeo Nelson, boogie-woogie pianist
- James Burke "St. Louis Jimmy" Oden, blues musician, composer
- Archie Pate, professional Negro League baseball player
- Gary Primich, blues musician
- Bobby Robinson, professional Negro League baseball player
- Buddy Scott, blues guitarist
- Charlie Segar, blues pianist and singer, the first to record the blues standard, "Key to the Highway"
- Pinetop Smith, boogie-woogie pianist
- Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Grammy Award-winning musician and vocalist
- Freddie Spruell, Delta blues guitarist and singer
- Eddie Taylor, blues guitarist, songwriter
- Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor, blues musician
- George Washington Thomas, songwriter
- Luther Tucker, blues guitarist
- Washboard Doc 1911–1988), blues musician
- Muddy Waters, blues musician
- Johnny "Daddy Stove Pipe" Watson, blues musician
- Valerie Wellington, actress, opera singer, blues singer
- Tom Williams Negro leagues pitcher, Chicago American Giants