INDIAN CEMETERY, Cheshire Twp., Allegan County, Michigan

Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by Sue DeHaan - cheshire@btc-bci.com

This old burying ground is now so neglected and overgrown with sassafras bushes
that it is not easily recognized. There are but two stones that we could find,
both of them being down and most covered with debris. It is located in Section
30. It is not known whether the persons whose graves are marked were Indians or
not. Examination of the Allegan Co. Death records was made but the color of the
one recorded was not given.
Allegan County, Michigan, Land Deeds, Liber 25, pg. 612 Deed recorded June 16,
1866 states:
April 14, 1860 James C. Grunman & Ellen M. Grunman, his wife, of Township of
Cheshire, County of Allegan, State of Michigan, to Indians of Township of
Cheshire, County of Allegan and State of Mich. Sell for $10 all that certain
piece or parcel of land lying and situated in the County of Allegan and State of
Mich. described as follows to wit: beginning 14 rods North of the South East
corner of Section 20 at the center line of the highway running West 8 rods,
thence North 5 rods, thence east 8 rods to the center line of Highway, thence
South 5 rods to the place of beginning, being in Town 1 North of Range 14 West,
containing 1/4 A. The above described premises to be used for a burying ground
only.
                  (signed) James C. Grunman  Ellen M. Grunman
Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of Warren Doud & Harriet Doud
April 17, 1860. Warren Doud, Justice of the Peace

Fox, Agnes  wife of Charles  d. Nov. 17, 1874 ae 28y
(Allegan Co. death records Vol. 1 pg. 110 gives this additional info-
Agnes Fox, b. Canada, dau. of James Wass)
Warsaw, Jas.  d. Oct. 15, 1874  ae 75y

This cemetery was hunted out and the inscriptions copied in Oct. 1940 by Nelle
Bailey Lonsbury, Cornelia C. Peck, and Ruth Robbins Monteith. Originally typed
March 1941.
Indian Cemetery, Cheshire Twp. Allegan Co. Mich.

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