Documenting Older Cemeteries
I am documenting all the cemeteries I can find in the tri-county area, focusing mostly on the inactive ones. My main source [[so far) is: http://www.interment.net/us/mi/. This listing is far from complete.
The strangest one I have found so far is in Southfield off Webster. If you take Webster west of Pierce [[NW of the Greenfield/12 Mile area) to the end, you will hit a road on the edge of a playground. Continue down that road until it ends. There are some apts there with a lone gravestone. I forget the name on the stone.
Thanks for any help.
Cemetery off Webster west of Pierce in Southfield
That cemetery off Webster behind the shopping center was connected to a farm, I believe, with most graves belonging to the same family. It was relatively ignored until the area began being developed in the mid to late 70s. If I recall there was a trailer park in there for some time before, and some people were taking stones to be used for steps. Once the park was gone, the houses started being built and then the cemetery was rediscovered and I hope properly dealt with. I was a new Southfield resident at the time, late 70s. There is probably some information in the historical archives.
Southfield has some other old cemeteries that are not in common use today. There is Pioneer Cemetery [[ think that is the name) on the east side of Lahser Road about halfway between 10 Mile and Civic Center. Southfield Cemetery, where I believe you could still buy a plot, is located north of Civic Center between Lahser and Berg. There is a road in to it, but it is between a bunch of apartment building driveways, a little hard to spot. It is a tree lined, beautiful spot surrounded by office buildings on Northwestern and apartments on Civic Center. I believe there is also a small cemetery associated with the old Reformed Presbyterian Church on Evergreen just north of the Civic Center and library.