Calhoun County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Rowley, Amy 
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Cemetery:           Oak Hill
Name:               Amy Rowley

Date Of Photograph: 2014
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Amy
Wife of A. Rowley
died 1842
Lot 10, Rt. 9

Additional Comments:
Could have been originally buried in the first cemetery in Battle Creek, see 
excerpt from A Brief History of Oak Hill Cemetery:
THE FIRST BURIAL GROUND:
In 1836 Sands McCamly, Jonathan Hart and members of the Merritt family 
surveyed, platted and drew the first map of what was to become Battle Creek. 
At this time a small plot of land was set apart to be used as a burial 
ground. This first cemetery was located near the intersection of N. 
Washington and W. Van Buren streets, close to the location of the Towers 
Addition to the Battle Creek Sanitarium (Federal Center).
 
Over the years the village grew to such an extent that this original 
cemetery was being crowded out by the development of factories, businesses 
and homes. In 1843 Moses Hall, Almon Whitcomb, T. W. Hall, Edward Packer and 
others consulted and decided to purchase ten acres of land south of the 
city, paying $12 an acre.
 
Oak Hill Cemetery Organized
On March 25, 1844, Oak Hill Cemetery was officially organized under the 
state Act of 1840. The original by-laws included the following stipulations:
 
The first burial at Oak Hill occurred on May 21, 1844, when Esther Cox, wife 
of Dr. Edward Cox, was interred.

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