Local Histories: Forest Lawn Cemetery: Village of Dexter, Scio Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan

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FOREST LAWN CEMETERY

Forest Lawn Cemetery was part of a parcel owned by Samuel Dexter, who came to 
Michigan in 1824 from New York State. He purchased 926 acres of land that was 
incorporated as the village of Dexter. For years, Dexter offered cemetery plots free 
to anyone. To this day the cemetery includes a potter's field.

In 1826, when Washtenaw County was organized apart from Wayne County, Dexter was 
appointed a judge. He and his second wife are buried here, as is the Civil War hero 
Colonel Harrison Jeffords. Also buried here are Nathaniel and Sylvester Noble, the 
first settlers of Dexter Township, as well as the Newkirk and Copland families, and 
Calvin Fillmore, brother of U.S. President Millard Fillmore.

WASHTENAW COUNTY DV-23 HISTORICAL MARKER