Find A Grave - Jackson County

Geiger, Gary b. April 4, 1937 d. April 24, 1996
Major League Baseball Player. He broke American League records for putouts (15) and chances handled (16) by a center fielder in a doubleheader on July 4, 1963, but both marks were later surpassed by Minnesota's Lyman Bostock on May 25, 1977. The slender 6-foot, 170-pound left-handed batter broke in with the Cleveland Indians in 1958 after being drafted from the St. Louis Cardinals' organization. He hit .231 in 91 games for the Indians and was traded with outfielder Vic Wertz to the Boston Red...[Read More] (Bio by: Ron Coons)
Pleasant Grove Memorial Park, Murphysboro, Jackson County, Illinois, USA
Grace, Joseph Laverne b. January 5, 1914 d. September 18, 1969
Major League Baseball Player, Started with St. Louis Browns in 1938. Played six seasons, ending in 1947. He was a veteran of World War II. (Bio by: Dink)
Cause of death: Auto Accident
Evergreen Cemetery, Ava, Jackson County, Illinois, USA
High, Andrew 'Handy Andy' b. November 21, 1897 d. February 22, 1981
Major League Baseball Player. Major League Baseball Player. The energetic 5-foot-6, 155-pound third baseman-second baseman played 13 years in the major leagues with the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1922 to 1925, the Boston Braves from 1925 to 1927, the St. Louis Cardinals from 1928 to 1931, the Cincinnati Reds from 1932 to 1933 and the Philadelphia Phillies in 1934. The left-handed hitter batted .283 with 27 doubles in 153 games as a rookie. After hitting .270 in 123 games in 1923, he batted a career-...[Read More]
Evergreen Cemetery, Ava, Jackson County, Illinois, USA
Keller, Kent Ellsworth b. June 4, 1867 d. September 3, 1954
US Congressman. Prior to becoming a lawyer, he was a teacher, newspaper editor and founded the Ava Community High School, Illinois in 1889. He was admitted to the bar in 1896 and opened a law practice Ava. From 1913 to 1917, he served in the Illinois State senate and was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1916. In 1931, he was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving until 1941. An unsuccessful candidate for reelection, he...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Evergreen Cemetery, Ava, Jackson County, Illinois, USA
Marmaduke, Virginia L b. 1908 d. 2001
Virginia L. Marmaduke, Illinois' grand duchess of journalism, who covered crime, corruption and carousers in an era that relegated most female reporters to the society pages, died Thursday, Nov. 8, 2001, at Pinckneyville (Ill.) Community Hospital. She was 93. Nicknamed "Duchess" by a Chicago editor who thought her last name too much of a mouthful for hollering purposes, Marmaduke spent the bulk of her 35-year print and broadcast career in the Windy City. Along the way, she piled up an...[Read More] (Bio by: Saluki)
Oakland Cemetery, Carbondale, Jackson County, Illinois, USA
Schindler, Charles John 'Charlie' b. March 11, 1959 d. November 3, 1997
Noted Cartoonist. He started out as a comic strip artist, later went on to become a very well-known Political cartoonist in numerous major Illinois newspapers. (Bio by: Tim Crutchfield)
Dutch Ridge Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Pomona, Jackson County, Illinois, USA
Simon, Paul Martin b. November 29, 1928 d. December 9, 2003
US Congressman, US Senator. Elected to represent Illinois' 22nd and 24th Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1975 to 1985. Also served as a Member of the Illinois State House of Representatives from 1955 to 1963, Member of the Illinois State Senate from 1963 to 1969, Lieutenant Governor of Illinois from 1969 to 1973, Candidate for Governor of Illinois in 1972, Alternate Delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Illinois in 1972, and United States...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
Rowan Cemetery, Makanda, Jackson County, Illinois, USA
Smith, George W. b. August 18, 1846 d. November 30, 1907
U.S. Congressman. He moved with his father to Wayne County, Illinois, in 1850, learned the blacksmith trade and graduated from McKendree College, Lebanon in 1868. He studied law, graduated from the law department of the Indiana University at Bloomington in 1870, commenced law practice in Murphysboro, Illinois and was the master in chancery from 1880-1888. On March 4, 1889, he was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first and to the nine succeeding Congresses. At the time of his death, he was...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Murphysboro City Cemetery, Murphysboro, Jackson County, Illinois, USA

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