Jane Addams died on May 21, 1935. Although the Episcopal Bishop of Washington had invited her interment beside Woodrow Wilson in the National Cathedral, Addams respectfully refused this offer in favor of being buried at the family plot in Cedarville.

Addams's funeral occured on May 23 in the courtyard of Hull-House. Later that day the train bearing her body arrived in Freeport, where it was taken first to the Addams homestead, then to the cemetery.

The Cedarville Cemetery is on Red Oak Road, a quarter mile west of Cedar Creek.

Click on the image below to enter a virtual tour of the restoration of the Addams monument, completed in 2004.