By Scene Staff on Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 3:13 pm
We all know our city is flush with living and breathing people doing incredible things but did you know we also house some pretty cool dead people as well? From political figures to movie stars, Cleveland has a wide variety of note-worthy people buried right here in the city's cemeteries.
By Brandon Koziol
Deemed as "Baseball's First Lady," her father owned the Cleveland Spiders. Adding to her cred, she also inherited the St. Louis Cardinals in 1911 after the death of her uncles. Helene divorced Cardinals president Schuler Britton in 1916 and remarried (hence the Bigsby on the gravestone).
May Allison graced the silver screen with movies such as The Telephone Girl and I Want My Man. She has 59 credits to her name, according to IMDb.
(Photo via Wikimedia)
Who is Gloria Pressman? It's still up for debate. She's thought to be star of early Little Rascals films and later Jazz vocalist. Some believe and others think her fame was invented after her death.
Green served as the first black state senator in Ohio, and was the man who introduced a bill to make Labor Day a state holiday in 1890. The U.S. Congress adopted it as a national holiday in 1984.
As former owner of the Plain Dealer, Liberty Holden was a successful investor. He kicked off the morning Plain Dealer and had a hand in constructing the Cleveland Museum of Art.
(Photo via Elizabeth R., Yelp)
As one of Cleveland's most notorious ghosts, Indian Sauk Chief got his start fighting in the Black Hawk war against the U.S in 1830. He sustained a gun shot wound but survived and joined a vaudeville troupe in Cleveland to raise money for his tribe. The chief died in the Warehouse district, but wanted to return to his home in Minnesota. It's said his ghost still roams Erie Cemetery.
(Photo via Elizabethe, Flickr CC)
Simpson is the first permanent Jewish resident of Cleveland, coming all the way from Unsleben, Bavaria.
(Photo via Daniel L., Yelp)
Before Baker's fate in Lake View, he served as the Secretary of War for President Woodrow Wilson and Cleveland's mayor from 1912 to 1916.
(Photo via Wikimedia)
Eliot Ness was an iconic prohibition-era investigator in Chicago and later became the director of public safety in Cleveland. Most importantly, he's the namesake of the greatest amber lager in history.
Charles Good is a black Civil War veteran. He's one of 86 others who were buried there as well. (Photo via Tom Gill, Flickr CC)
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