3rd Michigan Men and Wives Buried at the Michigan Veterans Home

Authorized in 1885 by the state legislature, the Michigan Veterans Home opened in early 1886. 

c. 1900-1910, Library of Congress

There is a map board at the entrance from inside the grounds and located across the bridge over the pond. There is no map at the Monroe Street entrance. 

The cemetery layout is pretty straightforward seven sections (plots) laid out in rows numbered west to east and then graves numbered north to south.

The caption below each photo provides the location numbers: plot-row-grave which can be found on markers located along the edges of the plots (sections), like this one:

See my post for the burials of the 3rd Michigan Infantry reorganized soldiers.

Charles H. Adams (1836-1925) 7-20-8

John Alderson (1845-1913) 5-15-11 

Charles A. Althouse (1835-1911) 5-10-14

Alfred Ames (1841-1921) 7-22-17

James Babe (1839-1903) 4-14-38

William Henry Baird (1839-1921)  7-15-22

George Bodendorfer (1826-1891) 3-8-3

Zimri Burnham (1824-1900) 4-9-29

William Courser (1836-1913) and Mary Courser (1848-1928)

6-8-9

6-8-10

Mary Sparling Dart's husband John Dart served in Company B. It appears he and Mary were estranged for many years. John died in 1903 and is buried in Blue Mound Cemetery, Milford, Nebraska.

5-14-5

George Decker (1841-1922) 7-17-5

James M. Ferris (1838-1901) 4-11-9

John Foulks (1833-1905) 4-17-29

Oscar O. Gaines (1843?-1887) 1-4-11

William H. Graham (1828-1899) 2-6-6

Lycurgus Granger (1839-1915) 7-4-37

Calvin Hall (1826-1898) 2-9-12

William Herrick (1818-1893) 4-3-6

Ira Hiler (1835-1920) 7-13-27

George Houseman (1841-1923) 7-19-33

William Jones (1833-1897) 1-1-3

Abram Ketchum (1823-1906) 4-19-30

George Korten (1845-1903) 4-15-33

Tyler Lawson (1840-1906) and his wife Susan Packard Lawson (1838-1906).

 4-20-33

5-10-1

Thomas Lynch (1839-1891) 3-9-7

William Henry Harrison Marlett (1841-1917) 7-10-11

Charles W. McCalley (1820-1897) 1-2-27

George Kippen Nairn (1836-1905) 4-18-23

George Phillips served in both the 3rd Michigan Infantry and the 21st Michigan Infantry.

George W.Phillips (1838-1910) 5-7-5

Samuel Reed (1840-1913)  and his wife Caroline Lenor Jones Reed (1836-1914).

6-7-5 

6-7-4

James Reynolds of Company D presents an a bit of a mystery. He died at the Home in 1914 and is buried in the Home Cemetery both Home records and death certificate confirms this. However, there is a government headstone for him in Carson City Cemetery, Montcalm County. Online records for that cemetery intimate that he was "reburied" in 1886. The government's online records for veterans headstones notes the stone was acquired c. 1900. 

Also of note is that his second wife Phoebe Armstrong Stevens is buried in the Home cemetery as well: 5-9-7 (under the name of Stevens); the marker lists her date of death as May 2, 1918; it was May 2, 1919.

James Reynolds (1840-1914) 7-1-5

Phebe (Reynolds) Stevens (1837-1919) 5-9-7

William Rusco (1836-1890) 3-3-1

John Sayles (1846-1921) and Mary Carpenter Sayles (1848-1926. John served in both the 3rd Michigan Infantry and the 6th Michigan Cavalry.

6-10-21 and 22

Charles H. C. Scaddin (1827-1916) 7-6-30

Ludwig Frederick Schmidt (1823-1905) 4-18-2

Harding (not Hearding) Smith (1822-1899) 2-6-4

Ezra Stewart (1836-1907) 4-21-33

Chauncey Brewer Taylor (1843-1920) 7-13-34

John Taylor (1824-1897) 1-2-33

Samuel Thurston (1841?-1897) 1-2-20

Charles S. Warren (1844-1917) and Mary Spencer Warren (1851-1926).

6-4-22

6-4-23

Charles M. Woodruff (1834-1915) and his wife Eliza Jane Collier Woodruff (1847-1917).

6-5-25

6-5-24

George Woodruff (1841-1904) 4-17-17

John Wright (1829-1900) 4-9-28

3rd Michigan Reorganized Buried at the Michigan Veterans Home

The reorganized 3rd Michigan Infantry was a completely separate unit from the original (or "old") 3rd Michigan. The former served from 1864-1866 in the western theater of the war.  For more information on the reorganized 3rd Michigan go here.

The Old 3rd served with the Army of the Potomac mainly in Virginia from 1861-1864.

Peter Fontee Company D

Malcolm Campbell Company F

Riley F. Warner Company I

William H. Watts Company D

Louis Uuper Company A

John Blanchard Company A

Melvin A. Wells Company E

Truman Hayner Company I

Riley S. Stearns Company B

Melvin Gregory Company H

Hiram Moore Company C

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:

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.

VandenBerg Burials in Rest Lawn Memorial Park

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

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

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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