J. W. Wills's first funeral home was located here from 1905 to 1912, in the home of his late father-in-law John L. Lee. Within a few more years, the Great Migration would increase the African American population in Cleveland, which shaped both Wills's business and the Cedar-Central neighborhood it occupied. After two decades at this location, the increasingly crowded neighborhood (whose crowding was largely a result of the real estate industry's imposed limits on black residential choice), would be demolished for "slum clearance" and replaced by the Cedar-Central Apartments public housing project. | Source: Call and Post, May 23, 1942Download Original File
