Livingston County MI Archives Photo Place.....Gate September 23, 2008
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Jesse Winters jessejwinters@aol.com September 26, 2008, 12:13 am

Source:             Chilson Cemetery
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Located on Clilson Road North of Brighton Road a quarter mile on the east side 
of the roadway.

Township keeps the gate locked......

A little north of the now absorbed town of Chilson is the Chilson cemetery. It 
is one of the oldest in the county having its beginnings in 1837. It is located 
at the northeast corner of the east half of the southwest quarter of Section 28 
up on a lovely hill. 

Additional Comments:
The township spent thousands of dollars in putting up a beautiful wrought iron 
fence and will work with some scouts to restore the broken stones there.

Genoa township in which it is situated has information that some of the burials 
include the first settlers of the area. When the original owner Nicholas 
Kriesler sold the property in 1867, he excluded the three acres on which the 
cemetery stood. He later sold the burial ground to Asa Rounsifer and it was 
sold to the Genoa township Burying Ground Association in 1870. This was then 
deeded over to the township in 1924 by the existing board of directors of the 
association.

As noted above, the township has made a number of improvements lately including 
a strong fence to keep vandals out and to protect the heritage of the township 
within. More plans are expected to keep the grounds respectable for any 
visitors. 

The transcriptions of the rural cemeteries of Livingston County by the DAR in 
the 1940's included this cemetery in Volume II and was compiled into a new 
index of all three and I used this index and turned it into an easy table which 
now also includes the actual cemetery name and is linked to individual cemetery 
pages.


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