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Valley City Permit Grounds. Kalamazoo County Poor Farm. Was started Memorial Day 2014 as a headstone recovery project within the Grand Rapids, Michigan area. As a Find-a-Grave volunteer I began to realize just how many ancestral headstones had become "lost", hidden beneath years of soil and sod. Sometimes the stone was barely visible. Other times it was completely buried. In most instances the elements of time make the inscriptions difficult to read. The sorrow felt by those you knew,. Numerous graves go...
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Ottawa County Poor Farm Cemetery - GRAncestors.com
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Valley City Permit Grounds. Kalamazoo County Poor Farm. Ottawa County Poor Farm Cemetery. 18 April 2014. Eastmanville, Ottawa County, Michigan. Located north of Leonard, east of 68th in Eastmanville. 616323.7316 / Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Valley City Permit Grounds. Kalamazoo County Poor Farm. Over 50 Headstones Unearthed! Selecting the button at right will take you to a secure PayPal page where you can make payment. We accept Visa/MC/AmEx/Discover via PayPal. Once payment is received you will be taken back to this site where you will be prompted to enter your Ancestor's burial information. You must know where your ancestor is buried. I will need the specific burial details and cemetery name. For the low fee of just $40.
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Valley City Permit Grounds. Kalamazoo County Poor Farm. Exciting discoveries in modern DNA research are changing the way genealogy is done. Today, not only is it possible to determine your ethnicity down to a certain percentage, but your DNA holds the keys that can unlock doors leading to newly discovered cousins and assistance with your own research as the result. Why should I test with FamilyTree DNA? What is involved in testing? What test should I take? 616323.7316 / Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Valley City Permit Grounds. Kalamazoo County Poor Farm. Grand Rapids City Churches. A listing of all Grand Rapids area churches from 1865 with membership and leadership information. Grand Rapids City Photographers. A listing of all Grand Rapids area photographers from City Directories (includes ads). This directory will assist you in dating your Grand Rapids photos, as photographers changed frequently. Grand Rapids City Postcards. Memorializing a snapshot of vintage Grand Rapids. History of Grand Rapids.
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Herbert Waters - GRAncestors.com
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Valley City Permit Grounds. Kalamazoo County Poor Farm. Where is Herbert Waters Buried? Wife Caroline at 12 Central Place in 1913 and 1914. And then he disappeared again. A Grand Rapids Press obituary for Herbert states that there would be "private funeral services upon arrival of body" which alludes to the fact that Herbert's body was being sent (via train) to Grand Rapids from San Antonio. There are four possibilities here:. 2) Herbert's body made it back to Grand Rapids and he is buried. In the ROBBIN...
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Valley City Permit Grounds. Kalamazoo County Poor Farm. Horace B. SEYMOUR (1817-1864). Find-a-Grave Memorial # 113238011. Horace' headstone once stood tall and proud. today it has nearly disappeared from view. Stone has been unburied - heavily soiled. Tree symbolizing mourning and sadness. Close-up shot of headstone - very poor condition. Washing stone reveals lettering. Cleaned stone - post reading. HORACE B. SEYMOUR. Sept 2, 1864. 1865 Grand Rapids City Directory, p143.
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Joel Guild - GRAncestors.com
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Valley City Permit Grounds. Kalamazoo County Poor Farm. Meet Joel Guild (1788-1856) - Pioneer. Mr Joel Guild is buried in Fulton Street Cemetery, Block 4, Lot 5. His upright stone long ago toppled to the ground where it now lies flat. Mr Joel Guild (1788-1856). Joel Guild, Grand Rapids Pioneer, Died 26 May 1856. Joel Guild's Fulton Street Cemetery Lot. Joel's Venturous Trip toward Grand Rapids. We'll praise Thy name, O, God of Grace, For all Thy mercies shown;. DEATH IN THE WOODS. A large elm by the grav...
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Valley City Permit Grounds. Kalamazoo County Poor Farm. Vandals Strike at Oakhill. It saddens me how some people have little respect for the dead. It appears that the perpetrators entered a stone stair structure on the far northwest corner of the cemetery and made their way southeast past the Brown, Clark, and Morris mausoleums. I met with the Grand Rapids Cemetery workers Friday morning as they were taking photos. They. Explained how a graffiti removal specialist had been. Who Was Private Thomas Kennedy?
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Who Was Private Thomas Kennedy? - GRAncestors.com
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Valley City Permit Grounds. Kalamazoo County Poor Farm. Who Was Private Thomas Kennedy? During my Summer 2014 headstone reading of the Oakhill Cemetery South Permit Grounds I ran across the partially exposed headstone seen below. The stone belongs to Private Thomas Kennedy of the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company L. No Veteran's marker or flag marked the grave of this Union soldier. It was apparent that time had forgotten Private Kennedy. Who was he? And why did he come to Grand Rapids, Michigan? Further...