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

Oakwood Cemetery in Muskegon

Zeph Jeffers: 3-8-6, among a group of government stones

August Eckermann and his wife Florentine: 2-7-8

Himelberger: 1-10-12

George Schwegler: 2-21-8, buried with Bodendorfer

William Bodendorfer: 2-21-8

George Childs: 2-25-25

St. Mary's Cemetery in Muskegon

James Cavanaugh: 4-5-6

Rudolph Nagle or Neagle: 16-4

Christian Schmidt or Smith: 47-1

Evergreen Cemetery - 3rd Michigan soldiers

Henry Kingsbury:  4-4-1, small stone front left

Charles Miller: 7-10-1

Walter B. Morrison: 7-12-4

3rd Michigan Infantry Men buried in Spring Lake Cemetery

Thomas Somerset and his family

Orange McClure buried with his brother Jay's family

3rd Michigan Infantry Men buried in Nunica Cemetery

Lemuel Ward

Edward P. Davidson

John Nelthorpe

St. Mary's Cemetery - update 7/16/2017

Michael C. McCarthy (McCarty) 1836-1872.

Charles Carroll (1847-1864) died of wounds at Petersburg, Virginia, body sent home for burial.

Coopersville Cemetery, Coopersville, Michigan

With the exception of (William) Henry Himelberger the other men all served in the 3rd Michigan Infantry (1st organization).

Henry Himelberger 1st Michigan cavalry

Guildford D. Taylor

Charles Randallk

Charles Mead

Joseph Brown

Andrew and A. T. Duram

Allendale Cemetery, Allendale, Michigan

With the exception of C. B. Salisbury, all the other men here were former members of the 3rd Michigan Infantry (1st organization). Note the two government stones for John Herriman, the original and it's replacement.

John Herriman

Samuel Duram

William Comstock

C. B. Salisbury of the 24th Michigan Infantry

Harley Bement

Civil War veterans plot in Oakwood Cemetery, Allegan, Michigan

There is a curious collection of a half dozen civil war veteran burials right at the first entrance off of Western Avenue (Kellogg Street in the cemetery) to Oakwood (if you're coming from town).

What makes this group of government headstones curious is this space doesn't seem to be a specially designated area just for veterans nor does it appear to be connected with any GAR post. It's just a group of unrelated (?) possibly indigent veterans.

Eugene W. Martin, Company H 7th Michigan Cavalry - KIA
J. H. Harrington, Company G, New York Infantry, regiment unknown
Joseph Helsel, Company E, 21st Michigan Infantry
SGT William K. Rockwell, Company I, 5th Michigan Cavalry - KIA
James B. Daget, Company G, 16th Michigan Infantry
Illegible name, Company A, 3rd Michigan Cavalry

South Casnovia Cemetery in Muskegon County - 3rd Michigan Infantry

William Chase - 3rd reorganized Michigan Infantry

Gabriel Pruden - marker is starting to show it's age

Ira Johnson

Mortimer Bonner

Miner Emlaw in Lake Cemetery Cemetery, Grand Haven, Michigan: the importance of photodocumenting monuments

I cannot stress enough the importance of photographing, photodocumenting if you will, cemetery monuments. Nothing lasts forever, not even stone (except in Brittany where the passage graves are older than the pyramids of Egypt), as you can see from the series of photographs below.

The grave site belongs to the family of Miner Emlaw, buried in Lake Forest Cemetery, Grand Haven, Michigan. Miner served in the American Civil War as a private in the 3rd regiment of volunteers from the state of Michigan and his marker is a simple government stone.

The first two photographs I shot nearly 25 years ago; the second pair in 2016.

As you can see, while the other markers (his two wives one on either side of his stone) and later family members are still in fine shape. Miner's stone, however, has simply sunk to the point where it's nearly illegible.

c. 1990:

2016: