Maple Hill is a larger city cemetery, located on the south side of Cadillac, Michigan. I have collected a number of photographs from this cemetery and will post my photographs by lot number. This lot is in an old part of the cemetery, and runs parallel to Mitchell Street. My dad showed me how to … Read more
Maple Hill is a larger city cemetery, located on the south side of Cadillac, Michigan. I have collected a number of photographs from this cemetery and will post my photographs by lot number. The ownership information for this lot was blank in the cemetery printout at the Cadillac Library, as was the purchase date. Lucy … Read more
Maple Hill is a larger city cemetery, located on the south side of Cadillac, Michigan. I have collected a number of photographs from this cemetery and will post my photographs by lot number. The cemetery record printout shows a purchased date of 12 July 1894 for this lot. Since the first person buried here died … Read more
Maple Hill is a larger city cemetery, located on the south side of Cadillac, Michigan. I have collected a number of photographs from this cemetery and will post my photographs by lot number. This lot is owned by James Johnston, and the printout at the Cadillac Library shows that he purchased it 27 August 1894. … Read more
The members of the my great-grandmother’s family who died in or near Grey Township are also buried at Knox Presbyterian cemetery. John Johnston was a taxable resident of Grey Township by 1866; I do not know the exact date he arrived there. Just two members of John’s family survived and migrated to Michigan, his children, … Read more
Jane Johnston is a “mystery” woman, information about her is hard to come by. She was the original owner of a locket in my possession, and my great-grandmother. Jane’s daughter, Winnie Alice Kaiser, was my Dad’s mother. Jane Johnston was born about 1867, using calculations from early census records and her marriage record. It is … Read more
Pages 6-13 contain photographs of living people, so I’ve kept them private. Page 14 again shows photos of my Dad, James Austin Yearnd. Dad was named for two uncles James Johnston, 1862-1940, was one of those uncles. James Johnston and Jane (Jennie) Johnston were the only siblings in a family of five known children who … Read more