Wahjamega Cemetery
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Wahjamega Cemetery

Also known as Dopking Cemetery

Caro, Tuscola County, Michigan, USA

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    Caro, Michigan 48723 United States
    Coordinates: 43.46220, -83.43530
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The first action of the town [Centerville, later renamed Caro] with reference to a public burying ground was had at the annual meeting in April 1859 when Chester W. Briggs, Franklin Fairman, David Gamble, Amasa Faulker, and William A. Heartt were apppointed a committee to ascertain where and at what price of a suitable lot could be obtained for a burying ground. The board was authorized to purchase the same, if in their opinion the location was a desirable one, and provided the amount of land was not less than two acres, and the price not more than fifty dollars. The committee were subsequently authorized to make a purchase, and at the annual meeting in April, 1861, reported that they had purchased a piece of land of Daniel D. Dopking, on the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 17, containing something more than two acres, for the sum of fifty dollars.

(History of Tuscola and Bay Counties, Michigan, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Their Prominent Men and Pioneers. Chicago: H.R. Page & Co., 1883, p. 76.)

Note: The Dopking Cemetery was later renamed the Wahjamega Cemetery, a reference to its proximity to property owned by William A. Heartt and other area pioneers.



The first action of the town [Centerville, later renamed Caro] with reference to a public burying ground was had at the annual meeting in April 1859 when Chester W. Briggs, Franklin Fairman, David Gamble, Amasa Faulker, and William A. Heartt were apppointed a committee to ascertain where and at what price of a suitable lot could be obtained for a burying ground. The board was authorized to purchase the same, if in their opinion the location was a desirable one, and provided the amount of land was not less than two acres, and the price not more than fifty dollars. The committee were subsequently authorized to make a purchase, and at the annual meeting in April, 1861, reported that they had purchased a piece of land of Daniel D. Dopking, on the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 17, containing something more than two acres, for the sum of fifty dollars.

(History of Tuscola and Bay Counties, Michigan, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Their Prominent Men and Pioneers. Chicago: H.R. Page & Co., 1883, p. 76.)

Note: The Dopking Cemetery was later renamed the Wahjamega Cemetery, a reference to its proximity to property owned by William A. Heartt and other area pioneers.



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