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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 ...
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 ...
St. Hedwig Cemetery (Michigan) W. ... Woodlawn Cemetery (Detroit) Woodmere Cemetery This page was last edited on 24 January 2024, at 18:51 (UTC). ...
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.
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
Jon Maynard believes he located a burial site that once belonged to the Lyman School for Boys, which closed in 1884, by Lake Chauncy in Westborough.
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.
Ancient people in France used the cemetery for about six centuries starting in the middle of the first century B.C., according to officials. Sprawling cemetery — with 160 child graves — sat ...