"By that I believe she was referring to day trippers or history buffs rather than family members interring loved ones; while most of Woodlawn's residents—among them Herman Melville , Fiorello La Guardia , Duke Ellington , Irving Berlin , Thomas Nast and Miles Davis , to name but a few—haven't been pursuing their careers for a while, the cemetery still buries a thousand bodies a year and cremates an additional 2,100."