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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 ...
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.
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.
Download QR code; In other projects ... Entrance to Woodmere Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan. From Guide and Souvenir of Detroit with Map and Illustrations, by Silas ...
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.
Pages in category "Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Michigan" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Woodmere – The Village of Woodmere existed in 1903, [2] and was located near the 250 acre Woodmere Cemetery that had been established following the American Civil War. It was annexed by City of Detroit in 1906.
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]