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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] Construction began in ...
Detroit: 1967-07-25/26: 3: Three civilians shot and killed by police at the Algiers Hotel during the 1967 Detroit riot, dramatized in the 2017 film Detroit: Robison family murders: Good Hart: 1968-06-25: 6: Mass murder of family from suburban Detroit while vacationing at cottage [3] Hazelwood massacre: Detroit: 1971-06-14: 8: Execution-style ...
Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Detroit) (70 P) Pages in category "Cemeteries in Wayne County, Michigan" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
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.
As if playing host annually to Devil's Night each October weren't enough, Detroit has another ghoulish problem on its hands as bodies pile up in the county morgue. With so many families out of ...
The database is based on spreadsheets of unclaimed bodies obtained through open records requests from the county medical examiners. The vast majority of these names have not been made public ...
On March 12, an estimated 25,000 to 60,000 people participated in a funeral procession for the four dead marchers, who were buried side by side in Woodmere Cemetery in Detroit. The slogan of the funeral march was "Smash the Ford-Murphy Terror". [13]
Entrance to Woodmere Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan. From Guide and Souvenir of Detroit with Map and Illustrations, by Silas Farmer, 1891 p. 105. https://archive.org ...