Kent County MI Archives Photo Place.....Greenwood Cemetery April 2007 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Pamela Porter-Newville Dear-Ancestor@comcast.net December 16, 2007, 10:31 am Source: Greenwood Cemetery Sign Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/kent/photos/greenwoo131332gph.jpg Image file size: 61.7 Kb GREENWOOD CEMETERY 2005 Tax Address: 1373 Leonard St NW Lat/Long: 42.989 / 85.706 Directions: One entrance on Leonard St. and the other on Bristol Ave that enters near Section R.. Ownership: City of Grand Rapids. Owner Contact Information: City of Grand Rapids, Cemetery Division of Parks and Recreation Dept., 201 Market SW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503 (616) 456-4500. Office Hours: 7 -11:30, 12:30- 4. Section: 14 of Walker Twp Local Government: City of Grand Rapids 2005 PP#: 41-13-14-301-001 2005 Tax Description Extract: W ½ of SW ¼ except streets and 75 acres of Sec 14 T7N R12W History: Greenwood Cemetery plat recorded on 24 Dec 1860 Liber 1 Page 2,3 and Greenwood Cem (FIRST ADD) plat recorded on 5 April 1901 Liber 16 Page 6 "Block A Lots 1-25, Block B Lots 1-74 and Block C Lots 1-56 and Also with potters Field with Lots 1-2 – the town of Walker – commencing at the SW corner of S14 T7N R12W- - thence North 40 rods (660 feet) thence East 88 rods (1452 feet) thence South 40 rods (660 feet) thence West 88 rods (1452 feet) to the point of beginning containing 20 acres of land more or less – deed 8 Feb 1859 by Daniel Bush and Sophronia W Bush, his wife to the City of Grand Rapids –the cemetery purposed to be known as the Greenwood Cemetery – for burial purposes" This early plat does not indicate North and only shows a few unlabeled sections at the extreme bottom tip with a Tour Road around the entire area and a separate fan shaped plat at the extreme upper left hand corner. The bottom area shows interior roads as Valley Avenue, Walnut Avenue, Oak Avenue and the entrance on the right side. No surface streets are shown, no directions are shown. Does not match with current cemetery map. The second plat shows no relation to the first plat. It shows only Bristol Street and sections P, Q, R, S, T, U. It says, "Greenwood Cemetery First Addition Surveyed and platted in 1900. Beginning at a point on the E/W subdivision line of the SW ¼ of Sec 14, T7N R12W" It gives measurements in degrees, South by South East commencing roughly at the corner of Richmond and Bristol 1323 feet south and 33 feet East to the Point of Beginning thence Southerly 677 feet, Easterly 625 feet, Northerly approximately 677 feet, Westerly by 695 feet. Surveyed by L W Anderson, City Engineer. WD Feb 8, 1859 Daniel Bush and Sophronia M Bush, his wife to the City of Grand Rapids, MI Liber 14 Page 275 $1,000. Commencing at the SW corner of Section 14- 7-12, running thence north 40 rods (660 ft), thence east 80 rods (1320 feet), thence south 40 rods (660 feet), thence west 80 rods (1320 feet to place of beginning - containing 20 acres of land, more or less. WD Jun 1, 1883 L150 P99 $4,000 Rupert G Bush, Executor of the Estate of Daniel Bush, to the City of Grand Rapids. Being part of the west half of the southwest quarter of Section 14-7-12, commencing 40 rods (660 feet) north of the southwest corner of said Section 14, thence north on said section line 40 rods (660 ft), thence east 80 rods (1320 ft), thence south 40 rods, thence west 80 rods to the placed of beginning - containing 20 acres of land. WD Dec 3, 1889 Rupert C Bush, Executor of the Estate of Daniel Bush, To the City of Grand Rapids $6,000 The NW ¼ of the SW ¼ of Section 14-7-12. "Total of 79 acres, with an estimated 22,131 burials. Records go back to 1880, a fire destroyed the building that contained earlier records. Cemetery averages 225 burials annually" (History of Grand Rapids Lydens 1966) Area annexed to the City in 1891. Deed details: Detail Deeds Religious, Ethnic Affiliation: Public Description: Very large on very hilly ground. Map: Designation I on township map shown above, aerial map: ppn=41-13-14-301- 001, plat map: Greenwood File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/kent/photos/greenwoo131332gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 4.5 Kb