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3300 Walker Avenue NW, Walker, Kent County, Michigan. Find a Grave USGW Archives
ISLE ROYALE, HURON, GRAND PORTAGE, CHALLENGE, WINONA, KING PHILLIP, WYANDOT & SUPERIOR MINE FATALITIES PROJECT The Isle Royale Mine consisted of over 3500 acres of land just south of Houghton, comprised of the Old Grand Portage, Huron, Frue, Dodge, and Montezuma mines. The mine consisted of six shafts, a centralized surface plant, a short line railroad, a stamp mill, a pumping station, and a...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Ingham County, Michigan. Official Website Ingham County was established by an act of the Michigan Territorial Legislature on October 29, 1829 and was named for Samuel D. Ingham, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Andrew Jackson. Adjacent Counties Eaton County Clinton County Shiawassee County Jackson Cou...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Official Website History Kalamazoo is the county seat of Kalamazoo County. Originally known as Bronson (after founder Titus Bronson) in the township of Arcadia, the names of both the city and the township were changed to "Kalamazoo" in 1836 and 1837, respectively. The Kalamazoo name comes from a Po...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Saginaw County, Michigan. Official Website The county was created by September 10, 1822 and was fully organized on February 9, 1835. The etymology of the county's name is uncertain. It may be derived from Sace-nong or Sak-e-nong (English: Sauk land), as the Sauk (French: Sac) tribe is believed by some to have once lived there. A mo...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Iosco County, Michigan. Official Website The county was created by the Michigan Legislature in 1840 as Kanotin County, and renamed Iosco County in 1843. A majority of the population used to be Chippewa Indians, the area offered shelter from tall white pines, and food from the river and lake. Iosco County was cut from a piece of land...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tuscola County, Michigan. Official Website The county was created by Michigan Law on April 1, 1840. The name Tuscola was a neologism created by Henry Schoolcraft and had an aboriginal root. That source likely was the native Ojibwe name "desakamigaa" that means the flat level ground or simply the flat country. For an ending, Mr. Scho...
Please add profiles for those who were born in Shiawassee County, Michigan. Official Website The county was created in 1822 and was named for the Shiawassee River. Adjacent Counties Saginaw County Genesee County Livingston County Ingham County Clinton County Gratiot County For a complete list of Townships & Communities, please see Wikipedia .
Riverside Cemetery - Kalamazoo - Michigan - USA
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Muskegon County, Michigan.= Official Website =Muskegon County was organized in 1859. Its name is from the Muskegon River, which runs through it and empties into Muskegon Lake and subsequently flows into Lake Michigan. The word "Muskegon" comes from the Ojibwa/Chippewa word mashkig, meaning "marsh" or "swamp". Adjacent Counties * Kent ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in St. Clair County, Michigan. Official Website The county was created September 10, 1820. French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle led an expedition to this area on August 12, 1679. These Roman Catholic men named the lake as Lac Sainte-Claire, because it was the feast day of Sainte Clare of Assisi, whom they venerated. ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Charlevoix County, Michigan. Official Website History Between 1840 and 1841, surveyors William Austin Burt, John Mullett and Charles W. Cathcart, surveyed much of Northern Michigan. Cathcart oversaw the internal lines survey for 34N 08W, the region which would later be known as Charlevoix. Mullett and Cathcart laid out many of the...
The Detroit Tigers are an American professional baseball team based in Detroit, Michigan. The Tigers compete in the Central division of the American League (AL) in Major League Baseball (MLB). One of the AL's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in 1894 as part of the Western League. They are the oldest continuous one-name, one-city franchise in the AL. The Tigers have won ...
Bristol Cemetery is located 1/2 mile West of Bristol on 8 Mile Rd in Bristol, Dover Township, Lake County, Michigan. It's also known as Dover Township Cemetery . Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Midland County, Michigan.= Official Website ==History=At the time of European contact, the land that would be Midland County, was occupied by the Chippewa Tribe. In the year of 1831, Midland County's borders had been set. In 1850, Midland County was officially organized. In 1890, Herbert Henry Dow arrived and founded the Dow Chemical ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Crawford County, Michigan. Official Website The county is named for Col. William Crawford,[6] a Revolutionary War officer captured by Native Americans near Sandusky, Ohio and burned at the stake in 1792. Created by the Michigan Legislature as Shawono County in 1840, before being renamed in 1843 as Crawford County. "Shawono" was deri...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Otsego County, Michigan. Official Website The county was founded in 1840 as Okkuddo County (meaning "sickly water," although the reason for using a name with such a negative meaning is lost). The name was changed to Otsego in 1843 and was organized in 1875. Otsego may be a Native American name meaning "place of the rock". However, a...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Grand Traverse County, Michigan. Official Wesbite In 1840, the county was separated from Mackinac County and originally named Omeena County. It was organized by an act of the state legislature on April 7, 1851. Grand Traverse is derived from a French phrase meaning "long crossing" and the county is so named because it is situated at...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Montmorency County, Michigan.= Official Website =The county was created by the Michigan Legislature in 1840 as Cheonoquet County, after a well-known Chippewa (also known as Ojibwa) Chief, whose name meant Big Cloud. Cheonoquet took part in Indian treaties in 1807, 1815, 1825 and 1837. Renamed Montmorency County on March 8, 1843, it wa...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Ann Arbor, Michigan . Official Website History In about 1774, the Potawatomi founded two villages in the area of what is now Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor was founded in 1824 by land speculators John Allen and Elisha Walker Rumsey . On May 25, 1824, the town plat was registered with Wayne County as "Annarbour", the earliest known use of t...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in St. Joseph County, Michigan. Official Website The county was formed in 1829 and was named for the St. Joseph River. Adjacent Counties Kalamazoo County Calhoun County Branch County LaGrange County, Indiana Elkhart County, Indiana Cass County Van Buren County
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Manistee County, Michigan.= Official Website =The county was set off in 1840 and organized in 1855. The name "Manistee" is from an Ojibwe word first applied to the principal river of the county. The derivation is not certain, but it may be from ministigweyaa, "river with islands at its mouth". Adjacent Counties * Grand Traverse Coun...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Barry County, Michigan. Official Website History Before the present era, the Michigan peninsula was long occupied by bands of the Potowatomi and Ojibwe of the Lake Superior Band of Chippewa Indians. The United States government forced the tribes to cede their extensive territories to the federal government, in exchange for annuit...
This cemetery is located on 401 East Southern Road, Kinderhook, Branch County, Michigan. Find a Grave Billion Graves
This cemetery is located on County Road 614, Mio, Oscoda County, Michigan. It's also known as Elmer Township Cemetery #2 . Find a Grave Oscoda County Website - List of Burials