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This cemetery, located in Girard Township, was established in 1837. Find a Grave
This cemetery is located 3415 Hill Road, Grand Blanc, Genesee County, Michigan. It's also known as Whigville Cemetery and is listed in many obits as Whigville. Find a Grave USGW Archives Billion Graves
Evergreen Cemetery was founded in 1905 by the Evergreen Cemetery Association. It is seven and a half miles from the old City Hall in downtown Detroit and was like it's immediate next door neighbor to the north. Woodlawn Cemetery brought into existence to cater to the many immigrants that had flocked into the city. Salesmen went door-to-door selling cemetery plots. The cemetery was in the co...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Branch County, Michigan. Official Website History As one of the "cabinet counties" it was named for the U.S. Secretary of the Navy John Branch under President Andrew Jackson. Branch County was a New England settlement. The original founders of Coldwater were settlers from the northern coastal colonies – "Yankees", descended from ...
This cemetery is located on 427 Meadowview Drive, Tawas City, Iosco County, Michigan. It was established circa 1916 and it's also known as Tawas City Cemetery and Tawas City Memory Gardens Cemetery . Find a Grave
Birch Run Cemetery resides in Birch Run, Saginaw County, Michigan. The earliest interments in this burying ground date from 1856. Birch Run Cemetery is an active cemetery. Birch Run was formed in 1863, the village named Birch Run went through a name change during the early days. It was renamed Deer Lick and remained so until 1868 and renamed to Birch Run. The cemetery of the same name runs b...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sanilac County, Michigan. Official Website The county was created on September 10, 1822 and was fully organized on December 31, 1849. It was probably named for a Wyandot (Huron) chief named Sanilac. Adjacent Provinces & Counties Huron County Tuscola County Lapeer County St. Clair County Province of Ontario For a...
Wikipedia =Northern Michigan University (NMU) is a four-year college public university established in 1899 and located in Marquette, in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. With enrollment of about 9,000 undergraduate and graduate students, Northern Michigan University is the Upper Peninsula's largest university. Notable Alumni
Wikipedia Western Michigan University (WMU) is a public research university located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. The university was established in 1903 by Dwight B. Waldo, and as of the Fall 2014 semester, its enrollment is 23,914. WMU has one of the largest aviation programs in the United States, and it is the site of the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies. The univ...
The Cleveland Cliffs Iron Mine Co. The Iron Cliffs Company established in 1865 by a group of New Yorkers including Samuel J. Tilden. They obtained property in Marquette County and opened their first mine, the Barnum Mine, in 1867. Two shaft, the "A" and "B" were sunk. The company obtained three more mine pits by 1870. In 1877, Iron Cliffs began exploratory drilling on this site overlooking Ish...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Leelanau County, Michigan.= Official Website =Established in 1840, the county's name was said to be a Native American word meaning "delight of life", but it is a neologism from Indian agent and ethnographer Henry Schoolcraft, who sometimes gave the name "Leelinau" to Native American women in his tales.There are 26 wineries on the peni...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Livingston County, Michigan.The county was formally organized in 1836. As one of Michigan's "Cabinet counties", a group of ten counties whose names honor members of President Andrew Jackson's Cabinet, it is named after former US Secretary of State Edward Livingston. Adjacent Counties * Genesee County * Oakland County * Shiawassee Cou...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Missaukee County, Michigan.= Official Website =The county was established in 1871 and may be named after a prominent Ottawa chief, Nesaukee, who signed the treaties of 1831 and 1833. However, it is also said that "Nesaukee" could be interpreted as 'large mouth of the river.' Adjacent Counties * Kalkaska County * Crawford County * Ros...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Arenac County, Michigan . Official Website History Arenac County was organized in 1883. The name Arenac, coined by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft , US Indian Agent and ethnologist, is a derivation of the Latin arena and the Native American. The combined words mean “A sandy place for a good footing.” The county includes some off-reservati...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Cass County, Michigan. Official Website History The county is named for Lewis Cass, the Michigan Territorial Governor at the time the county was created in 1829. Cass later served as the United States Secretary of War under President Andrew Jackson, thus making a case for including Cass County as one of Michigan's "cabinet counti...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clare County, Michigan. Official Website The county was created by the Michigan Legislature from part of Michilimackinac County in 1840, named Kaykakee County. It was renamed Clare County in 1843 after County Clare in Ireland. The county was administered by a succession of other Michigan counties prior to the organization of county ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Mackinac County, Michigan.= Official Website =Formerly known as Michilimackinac County, in 1818 it was one of the first counties of the Michigan Territory, as it had long been a center of French and British colonial fur trading, a Catholic church and Protestant mission, and associated settlement.The county's name is believed to be sho...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Oceana County, Michigan.= Official Website =The county was founded in 1840 and organized in 1855. Two possibilities have been put forward to explain the county's name: Oceana County may have been named for Lake Michigan, a freshwater "ocean," which forms its western border; or it was named for the book Oceana, written by English auth...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Ogemaw County, Michigan.= Official Website =The county was originally created by the Michigan Legislature in 1840 from unorganized territory, but was absorbed into Iosco County in 1867. It was re-created in 1873 and finally organized in 1875. The county's name is an Anglicization of the Anishinaabemowin word ogimaa, meaning "chief". A...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Oscoda County, Michigan. Official Website The county was established on April 1, 1840 by act of the Michigan State legislature. However, its governing structure was not completed until 1881. The name is a Henry Rowe Schoolcraft neologism, thought to be a combination of two Ojibwa words, "ossin" (stone) and "muskoda" (prairie) -- hen...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Osceola County, Michigan. Official Website When established by the Michigan Legislature on April 1, 1840, it was named Unwattin County, after Chief Unwattin of the local Ottawa people. As a representative of the Ottawa nation, he participated in negotiations for the Treaty of Washington (1836) that granted a vast expanse of Michigan...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Roscommon County, Michigan. Official Website The county was formed by the Michigan Legislature in 1840 as Mikenauk County, then renamed Roscommon County in 1843. It was named for County Roscommon in Ireland. Adjacent Counties Crawford County Oscoda County Ogemaw County Gladwin County Clare County Missaukee County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Antrim County, Michigan. Official Website The county was formed in 1840 as Meegisee County. Meegisee (meaning "eagle"), was the name of a Chippewa chief who signed the 1821 Treaty of Chicago and the 1826 Treaty of Mississinewas. It was renamed Antrim County in 1843, one of the Irish or Scots-Irish names given to five renamed Michig...
We are the oldest continuously operating, non-denominational cemetery in Detroit. The cemetery was established in 1846 and incorporated in 1849 as a non-profit corporation by an act of the Michigan Legislature. Founded by some of early Detroit’s leading citizens, Elmwood quickly expanded from its original 42 acres to its current size of 86 acres and became the final resting-place of tycoon and ...
This cemetery was established in 1853 and is located on 10th Street (County Road 45), Wayland, Allegan County, Michigan. This cemetery is also known as East Elmwood Cemetery and West Elmwood Cemetery . Find a Grave