[Dixielandjazz] NEED for Headstone for Baby Dodds' gravesite

[Rebecca]

AND JazzBeat mentioned that George Buck has requested donations for a
marker.  Jim and I will be contributing.

Rebecca Thompson
Flower Mound, TX

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[mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On Behalf Of Mike C.
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:47 PM
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Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Headstone for Baby Dodds' gravesite

I was reading "Dead Man Blues", which is about Jelly Roll Morton, and
towards the latter part of the end of the book it also mentioned that he
didn't have a headstone for quite sometime either.

Mike



Charles Suhor wrote:
> Hello, listmates--
> 
> The current issue of JazzBeat magazine shows a picture of Baby Dodds' 
> burial place in Lincoln Cemetery, a historically black cemetery in 
> Blue Island, Illinois. A monument? A headstone?  No-the grave of this 
> great jazz pioneer is unmarked!


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