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Local History

Lawler Cemetery (Territorial) (Lone Pine)

Charleston Township

Location: Within Fort Custer Training Center (obtain permission from Charleston Township before requesting entry)

Status: Active.
lawler-sign-240  lawler-view-240
Photos: Beth Timmerman, 2010.

Sources

Original Records

Charleston Township
  • 1499 S. 38th St.
  • Galesburg, MI 49053
  • (269) 665-7805

Books

Cemetery Records of Kalamazoo County, Michigan
  • Monteith, Ruth Robbins
  • Genealogical Association of Southwestern Michigan
  • 1959 (Lawler Cemetery, October 1933)
  • H 977.417 M77

Tombstone Inscriptions in Kalamazoo County, Michigan: A Bicentennial Project

  • Kalamazoo Valley Genealogical Society
  • 1980 (Lawler Cemetery, 1973)
  • H 977.417 K145

Local History Room Files

History room vital records card file
  • Date of transcription unknown.

Websites

The Tombstone Transcription Project, Kalamazoo County — Michigan USGenWeb
  • Records – complete through 2008
  • Photos — incomplete
Find A Grave
  • About 400 records, some with photos and additional information.

Last updated July 19, 2012.