More than 120 years after his death, local historians finally feel confident of the burial spot for the first Black man to vote in Illinois. A reddish granite headstone sits in a quiet plot near the back of El Paso’s Evergreen Cemetery. It proudly bears the name David A Strother.

More than 120 years after his death, local historians finally feel confident of the burial spot for the first Black man to vote in Illinois.&nbsp;A reddish granite headstone sits in a quiet plot near the back of El Paso&rsquo;s Evergreen Cemetery. It proudly bears the name David A Strother.

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El Paso burial site of first Black man to vote in Illinois confirmed 121 years after his death

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