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This list of cemeteries in Michigan includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
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The initial, 1-1/2 acre portion of the Maple Grove Cemetery was leased from Charles Noble of Monroe, Michigan in 1844. An addition was made and formally platted by Isaac B. Woodhouse, a Mason businessman, in 1873. Several additions were made to the cemetery's acreage in the nineteenth century. The name was changed to "Maple Grove Cemetery" in 1897.
Mason is a city and the county seat of Ingham County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 8,252 at the 2010 census . [ 4 ] Mason was named after Stevens T. Mason , the state's first governor .
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Greenwood Memory Lawn Mortuary & Cemetery is the official name given to a cemetery located at 2300 West Van Buren Street in Phoenix, Arizona owned by Dignity Memorial.The cemetery, which resulted as a merger of two historical cemeteries, Greenwood Memorial Park and Memory Lawn Memorial Park, is the final resting place of various notable former residents of Arizona.
Settlers soon arrived, and the square became the central focus of commercial development. A road to Lansing was started in 1839, and in 1840 Mason became the county seat, attracting more development. The first courthouse was built in 1858. Additional sections were platted in 1866, and Mason was incorporated as a city in 1875.
In 1840, John and Emma Rayner moved from Auburn, New York, to Mason with their three children. Rayner was interested in farming as well as land speculation, and he purchased 320 acres of land at the site of this house, at that time east of Mason. Rayner likely began the construction of this house immediately in 1840.