Page 316 "History of Oakland County 1817-1877"


"The West Bloomfield Cemetery. This was formally called the Pine Lake Burial-ground. It is located on the southeast side of the road, between Pine and Black Walnut Lakes, near the residence of Douglas Harger, Esq. The first use of this ground as a place of burial was for the internment of Eben Ellenwood, in January, 1831. The tract, three fourths of an acre, had been donated by Jedediah Durkee for cemetery purposes. Soon after, and probably the next, came the burial of Erastus Durkee, brother of Jedediah. The ground was enlarged in the spring of 1872 by a purchase of an ajoining half acre, by the Township, from Douglas Harger, Esq. The ground is well fenced and cared for, and has, to some extent, been planted with evergreens. Within it lie buried John Ellenwood, Esq., William Durkee, Revs. Laban Smith and John J. Young, and many other of the old and respected inhabitants of West Bloomfield."

From a brochure provided by the Greater West Bloomfield Historical Society in October 2012.

Aug 2015; Call for Section & Plot numbers.

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