Ok.....you super sleuths on here really impress me. If you can answer this one, it is an answer I've looked for for 35 yrs.
A number of my Vokes ancestors are buried at Forest Lawn. 2 of them at Forest Lawn were re-interred there in 1899 and were supposed to have been originally buried at a cemetery named Kolbe or Kolhe which was said to be located in Hamtramck Twp.
Chauncey who most recently ran Elmwood was working at Forest Lawn at the time. The guy knows his stuff....he didn't have an answer. The Michigan Cemetery Atlas put out by the state library did not have a listing for it, and I never found anything that could help me at the Burton Room.
Ive looked at a few old maps...while I see Forest Lawn & Mt. Olivet listed in I think it was a 1883 map, which at the time lay in Hamtown Twp, I cannot see anything for the Kolbe/Kohle.
If any of you out there can help out, I will be a happy man before I pass.
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