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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 ...
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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.
At the time of his death, he lived on his farm, "Linden Lawn," (where Field Avenue would later be built) in the township of Hamtramck, the still largrly rural area to the east of the city of Detroit. Most of that township would later be annexed into Detroit, including where Field lived. He is interred in Woodmere Cemetery. [13]
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.
In 1987, Calka raised $5,000 to pay for the exhumation of Slovik's remains from Row 3, Grave 65 of Plot E, and their transfer to Detroit's Woodmere Cemetery, where Slovik was reburied next to his wife. [16] Slovik's military service record is now a public archival record available from the Military Personnel Records Center.
A Detroit man convicted of killing a teenager whose body is believed to be lost forever in a landfill was sentenced Monday to at least 43 years in prison. Zion Foster’s remains were never found ...
1849 Detroit annexes Springwells Township east of Brooklyn Street. April 2, 1850 – Greenfield Township annexes another section of Springwells Township. February 12, 1857 – Detroit annexes Springwells Township east of Grand Boulevard. March 25, 1873 – Springwells Township annexes back section of Greenfield Township south of Tireman