Record Group 14:
Wayne County Cemetery Records Finding Aid
Entry 1: Guides
Directory of Cemeteries in
Wayne
County, Michigan,
Pamela L. Lazar, Dearborn
Genealogical Society (1982) (Acc #:
89.31.2L)
Nankin Twp
Cemetery Map (Van Akin,
Wayne, Catholic, Glenwood, and Ganong)
Plymouth Cemetery descriptions (Old Baptist, Presbyterian and Riverside)
Entry 2: Plymouth
Cemetery Records
Riverside Cemetery
¼ mile south of Plymouth Road, ½ mile east of
Lilley Road, Plymouth, Michigan. Established in 1880.
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Plot locations of veteran interments
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Veteran Grave Sites, May1999
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Veteran’s Grave Sites compiled by Harry
Krumm, May 1986
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Riverside cemetery, Graves of Veteran Soldiers of the Revolutionary
War, Civil War and World War. Lists also from Newbury,
Waterford,
Kinyon,
Plymouth, Cherry Hill, Geer,
Lapham, Chubb and
Union
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Map of Riverside Cemetery (Acc #75.47)
Inscriptions of veteran soldiers from the Revolutionary War, Civil War and
World War I and may list name, service, lot and group, marker type or block
(Acc #2000.137.02) Established in 1880, many of the area’s prominent
citizens are buried here.
Riverside Cemetery
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City of
Plymouth Riverside Cemetery Location Map (No
date), 2 copies
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From Vermeulen Funeral Home Records of People Buried in
Riverside (2003).
May include name, birth, death, and burial dates
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List of Bodies and Slab Markers Removed from
Presbyterian Church Cemetery and Placed in
Riverside (No date)
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Rough for Cemetery Walk by Jack Wilcox
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Riverside
Cemetery
transcriptions by Arthur Booth, before 1979
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Confirmation of work done on fence, gateway,
tool house and grading of
Carriage Drive, 1879
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Gravestone Inscriptions from
Riverside
Cemetery
from
Detroit
Society for Genealogical Research (1960–1965)
Shearer Cemetery
(also known as North
Territorial
Road
Cemetery)
45452 North Territorial Road, Plymouth Township, Wayne County,
Michigan.
Some remains were removed and re-interred
in Riverside
Cemetery. Earliest burial circa 1838.
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Shearer
Cemetery inscriptions and photos of
Tibbits Farm Well
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Shearer
Cemetery reading done by DAR, no date
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Shearer
Cemetery transcription
done by Arthur Booth, 1960
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Shearer
Cemetery transcription taken from 4
different sources
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North
Territorial
Road
Cemetery
transcription, June 18, 1956 with accompanying correspondence from Robert
Bowen to Samuel Hudson
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Two articles of historical interest
Old Baptist/Plymouth Village Cemetery
York and Pearl Streets (also called North
Village Cemetery, Old York Street Cemetery, or North Plymouth Cemetery),
Plymouth, Michigan.
Founded in 1845, it went out of business in
1891. Some bodies were removed to
Riverside
Cemetery but many still
remain. This cemetery contains the remains of soldiers who fought in the Black
Hawk War and the Civil War in addition to many early area settlers.
Asenath Delia Lyon was
the first to be laid to rest at the tender age of nine on April 24, 1845. Over
200 people are in this cemetery. On June 20, 1891, the grounds were turned over
to the Village of Plymouth.
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Plymouth Village Cemetery Society,
Readings
and comments by Ronald Collopy, 1972
( Acc # 79.15.8L) and (Acc # 2002.040.02)
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Old Baptist record of internments in the
cemetery
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Old
Baptist
Cemetery Plots with
names
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Old
Baptist
Cemetery transcriptions
by Arthur Booth
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Old
Baptist
Cemetery or
Plymouth
Village
Cemetery by Sarah Ann
Cochrane
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Old
Baptist
Cemetery transcriptions
taken from 9 different sources
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Records of the
Plymouth
Village
Cemetery
Society, 1962
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Records of the Plymouth Village Cemetery
Society, business meetings and internments, no date
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Index to Records of
Plymouth
Village
Cemetery
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Notes re
North
Village
Cemetery Society from
N.
Dibbles’s History
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North
Village
Cemetery
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Article on “City Takes over the Permanent
Care of
Old
Village
Cemetery
Presbyterian Cemetery
Church Street,
Plymouth, Michigan
(also known as Old
Presbyterian
Cemetery).
The land was donated by William
Starkweather, who arrived in the area in 1825. When the cemetery was
closed in 1915, many bodies were transferred to
Riverside
Cemetery and the land was
used as a park.
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List of burials in
Presbyterian
Park
Cemetery
by Mr. Passage in 1916
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List of burials dated 11/30/2003
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5 articles of historical interest
Entry 3:
Non-Plymouth
Wayne County
Cemetery Records
Aldrich – Knapp
Cemetery
9 Mile Road, Northville Township, Michigan.
Single sheet, partial list, names starting with A–C.
Bell Branch Cemetery (currently known as
Redford
Cemetery) and Mount Hazel
Records
Bell Branch Cemetery
is located on the east side of Telegraph, ½ mile north of Five mile Road, Redford Township, Wayne County, Michigan. Booklet
by Marjoria Norris Beavis, c1939 includes a cemetery
map
Records of Redford Cemetery (originally Bell
Branch
Cemetery) and
Mount Hazel Cemetery
by Marjoria Norris Beavis, with 1994 Supplementary data and cemetery map (two
copies) (Acc #: 2003.178.01)
Mount
Hazel is located on the
east side of Lasher Road,
¼ mile south of Seven Mile Road.
Catholic Cemetery
Michigan
Avenue, Nankin, Wayne
County, Michigan
Champlain Street Cemetery of Temple Beth El or
Lafayette Cemetery
3371 East Lafayette, Detroit, Michigan. Two
alphabetized lists, one under the name Champlain the other under the name
Lafayette. Original records are in the custody of Temple
Beth El, 7400 Telegraph at 14 Mile Road,
Birmingham,
Michigan 48010.This is the
oldest Jewish cemetery in Michigan,
established on September 22, 1850.
Cherry Hill Cemetery
Ridge Road, Canton Township,
Wayne
County, Michigan. DAR copy was done in 1934. Second
version was done by Arthur Booth. Includes a plat map with lot
numbers.
Chubb Cemetery
Canton
Township,
Wayne County,
Michigan. DAR
version was done in 1934. Land was used as a burial ground starting in 1852.
Clarenceville
Cemetery
Base Line Road near Grand River
Avenue, Livonia
Township, Wayne County, Michigan. Index included. Version was done by
DAR, no date.
Entry 3:
Non-Plymouth
Wayne County
Cemetery Records
(Continued)
Downer Cemetery
Old Michigan Avenue, Canton Township,
Wayne
County, Michigan. DAR copy was done in 1934. Second
version was done by Arthur Booth. Third version has no author. Many graves are
in evidence with no markers. A neighbor to the cemetery mentioned stones had
been moved back to allow room for widening Michigan Avenue and when he moved to
this location he found his driveway had been paved with gravestones.
Elmwood Cemetery
East Lafayette and McDougall, Detroit, Wayne County,
Michigan.
Elmwood Cemetery by Jack Lessenberry, Detroit Monthly, October 1991.
This is a suggested cemetery walk. (Two copies)
Elmwood Cemetery by Tour Director, Martin Brosnan (No date). Contains a list of important people
buried in
Elmwood Cemetery.
Ganong Cemetery
Henry Ruff Road, Westland,
Wayne
County,
Michigan. Additional copies, one from MIGenWeb 2002 and one transcribed by Arthur Booth of
Dearborn, Michigan (No date). Land for the cemetery was set aside by William Ganong in 1832.
Glenwood Cemetery
Glenwood
Road, Westland, Wayne
County, Michigan
Kinyon Cemetery
Corner of Ridge Road and Gyde Road, Canton Township, Wayne County, Michigan. A history of the cemetery is included.
Copy done by DAR was in 1934, a second version was downloaded from Interment
2003, a third version includes lot numbers, a fourth version was taken from
records from Roxanna Kinyon’s Record Book showing lot
numbers from a map drawn before 1900. Land was purchased for the cemetery in
1840.
Knollwood
Cemetery
Ridge Road just south of Ford Road,
Canton, Wayne County, Michigan.
Livonia Center Cemetery
Farmington Road South of Five
Mile, Livonia, Michigan,
read 1975. Includes some photographs, obituaries and index.
Second reading, compiled by Julie F.
Witkowski, July 2006 (Acc. #2006.108.01)
Maple Grove Cemetery
Ann Arbor Trail, east of Middle Belt, Canton
Township, Wayne County, Michigan. Another copy in binder titled Maple Grove
Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions,
Westland, Michigan, prepared by Western Wayne County
Genealogical Society, 1998. A one page transcription by Arthur Booth of Dearborn is located in the
pages of the Binder above. Includes two former cemeteries: the
Van Akin Cemetery and the Memorial Park Cemetery. The Van Akin built a
church free to all denominations and platted a cemetery at the same time in the
year 1864. The last known burial was in 1940.
Martinsville Cemetery
Sumpter Township, Wayne
County, Michigan. Copied by Arthur Booth, Dearborn, no index. Many burials have been made with no stone to mark
them; many stones are only unmarked field stones, or flat ones. Numerous stones
in satisfactory condition have fallen; some are broken.
Newberg Cemetery
Ann Arbor Trail between
Wayne and Newburg Roads,
Livonia
Township.Wayne
County Michigan. Copied 1932, recopied 1975. Includes an index. Separate list of Civil War Veterans.
Oakwood Cemetery
1808–1990.
Northville,
Michigan. Article from the Mill Race Quarterly,
Fall
2001.
Old Cemetery
Cady Street, Northville,
Wayne County,
Michigan..
Old
Sheldon
Cemetery
“Any
Canton
Townshipites Know History of Old Sheldon
Cemetery,” by Esther
Springel. Plymouth Mail, April 23, 1959.
Old
Wayne
Cemetery
Michigan Avenue,
Wayne,
Michigan
Rural Hill Cemetery
Northville, Michigan.
Cemetery read 1990 (Acc #: 93.47.3)
Saint Mary’s Cemetery
Michigan Avenue
and Howe Road, Wayne,
Wayne County, Michigan.. Alphabetized
partial transcription of the 347 total, 2001.
Sheldon Cemetery
South Sheldon Road, Canton Township,
Wayne
County, Michigan. Version done by DAR in 1934,
version downloaded from Interment 2002, third version shows lot numbers with
names of interned (Acc #: 90.20.2L)
The land for the Sheldon cemetery was purchased in 1869 from George Smith for
$100.00 per acre. There are two acres in the plot.
Thayer Cemetery
Northville
Township,
Wayne County,
Michigan. The
earliest interment was in 1811.
Union
Church
Cemetery (also called
Briggs)
Waterford Road,
Livonia Township, Wayne County,
Michigan read 1999. Includes some photographs, obituaries,
historical notes, and index. This cemetery contains some of the oldest
graves in the Livonia
area.
Second reading, compiled by Julie F.
Witkowski, July 2006 (Acc #2006.108.02)
Van Akin Cemetery
Ann Arbor Trail, Nankin, Wayne County,
Michigan
Waterford Cemetery
Northville
Township,
Wayne County,
Michigan. Includes inscriptions and
information taken from other sources such as newspapers and death certificates.
Not to be confused with the existing city of the same name in Oakland County,
this community of Waterford, which in Civil War
times promised to become one of the largest towns in Michigan, had entirely disappeared by 1899.
The village was also known as Meads Mills.
Yerkes Cemetery
Eight Mile at Meadowbrook Road, Northville
Township, Wayne County, Michigan.
Compiled by Dorothy Skiba, 20 January 2005
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