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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Michigan Soldiers' Home Cemetery Grand Rapids

 The MsH Cemetery in Grand Rapids has two entrances:  the "old" entrance off of Monroe which is quietly marked and the main one which is accessed from the grounds of the Home itself (and there is visitor parking nearby).  The old entrance also allows access to the Marine Iraqi memorial to five men who were killed in 2006-2007.





the GAR monument just inside the old entrance

Memorial Day 2004


Sunday, July 13, 2025

St Patrick's Cemetery Wallingford, Vermont 2025

 We returned to St. Patricks in Julys of 2025 looking for the grave of Lena P. Drzewiczewski, a dear friend and colleague of Susan's. And we found her.



the view from Lena's grave

Close by is the monument for the Timbers family. On the reverse side of the stone says everything you need to know about them.



Friday, December 20, 2024

VandenBerg Burials in Rest Lawn Memorial Park

VandenBerg burials in Rest Lawn cemetery (Eastern near 36th Street). Photos courtesy of Dick VandenBerg.










Sunday, January 21, 2024

Zeeland Cemetery

 In Zeeland, Michigan, just off business 196. Entrance is off Lincoln Avenue.

memorial to the Dutch founders of Zeeland

Joseas DeKraker

Roelof Steffens family


Chester Van der Velde

Martin Eding

Gerald and Ann Huizenga, love Anne's epitaph


Sunday, January 14, 2024

Saint Patrick's Cemetery

Located just off Rte 7 above Green Hill Cemetery in Wallingford, Vermont. Turn east on Church street, drive uphill a short distance and look for the sign on the right.

James S. Cole, front


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Victoria Cole-Wilbur, front

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Sunday, January 3, 2021

Cave Hill Cemetery

Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky is unique in that it combines a local cemetery with a national cemetery component. I was there to find Moses P. Bigelow who once served in the 3rd Michigan Infantry but was discharged in 1862 for "insanity." He eventually returned to Michigan and reentered the army in the 17th Michigan  Cavalry and die of lung disease in 1864 at a hospital in Louisville.

The cemetery -- not the national part -- is also the final resting place of Muhammed Ali.








Wednesday, October 25, 2017

From a Boston Cemetery

I can't tell you which cemetery in Boston these two monuments were found but a friend sent these to me and I thought they were worthy enough to pass along to you.