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This list of cemeteries in Michigan includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
The Eastside Historic Cemetery District is a historic district bounded by Elmwood Avenue, Mt. Elliott Avenue, Lafayette Street, and Waterloo Street in Detroit, Michigan. The district consists of three separate cemeteries: Mount Elliott Cemetery ( Catholic , established 1841), Elmwood Cemetery ( Protestant , established 1846), and the Lafayette ...
The cemetery was founded by Russian immigrants in 1893 in order to provide access to Jewish burial no matter one's financial means. [1] [2] These immigrants founded the Chesed Shel Emeth Society in order to bury their deceased after the immigrants found rituals and traditions of the local Orthodox synagogues unfamiliar. [3]
Chesed Shel Emes vehicles seen in a Woodridge, New York cemetery. Chesed Shel Emet (Hebrew: חסד של אמת, pronounced [ˈχesed ˌʃel ʔeˈmes,-ʔeˈmet]; meaning "Charity of Truth" or "True Loving Kindness") is a Jewish voluntary organisation that is found in various forms around the world.
In 1850, however, the cemetery became slightly smaller when Temple Beth El purchased one-half acre to establish what is now Michigan's oldest Jewish cemetery. [2] The State of Michigan designated it as a State Historic Site in 1975. [1] Burt family tombstone. Elmwood was the first fully racially-integrated cemetery in the Midwest. A short ...
The Woodmere Cemetery Association was organized on July 8, 1867, by a group of prominent Detroit businessmen who purchased approximately 250 acres to establish a rural cemetery for the city of Detroit. [3] Woodmere's layout was designed by Adolph Strauch, who also designed Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio. [4]
Michigan state law also requires all private cemeteries to establish an "endowment and perpetual care trust fund," with $50,000 to start and monthly deposits of "not less than 15% of all proceeds ...
Chesed Shel Emet: The Truest Act of Kindness, Rabbi Stuart Kelman, October, 2000, EKS Publishing Co. Archived December 18, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, ISBN 0939144336. A Plain Pine Box: A Return to Simple Jewish Funerals and Eternal Traditions , Rabbi Arnold M. Goodman, 1981, 2003, KTAV Publishing House , ISBN 0881257877 .