Pilgrim Home Cemetery

location of the 1847 log church

Van Raale plot

GAR monument and soldier's lot

Michigan Veterans' Home Cemetery Grand Rapids

The Michigan Veterans' Home (also known as the Michigan Soldiers' Home) 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 entrance off Monroe shown below allows access to the Marine Iraqi memorial to five men who were killed in 2006-2007.

the main entrance off the Home grounds

the Iraqi memorial

the GAR monument inside the Monroe Street entrance

The cemetery layout is straightforward and easy to navigate laid out by plot (numbers 1-7) and then row and finally grave number (from left to right along the row. 

Memorial Day 2004

There is a map board at the entrance from inside the grounds (across the bridge over the pond). There is no map at the Monroe Street entrance. Feel free to download this one:

S. H. Harden in Newaygo Cemetery

This monument is certainly unique among civil war veteran gravesites.

While it is not uncommon to see a life-size statue of a Union soldier at a Grand Army of the Republic Monument, it's rare to see one at the grave of a single soldier.

S. H. Harden, 6th Independent Co. Ohio Sharpshooters

Greenwood Cemetery

The veterans graves of GAR Post Champlin Post No. 29 in Greenwood Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Michigan.