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Local History

Ford’s Hill Cemetery (Ford)

Comstock Township

Location: Section 26, Comstock Township.

Status: Inactive, private property
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Sources

Books

Cemetery records of Kalamazoo County, Michigan

  • Monteith, Ruth Robbins
  • Genealogical Association of Southwestern Michigan
  • 1959 (Ford Cemetery, July 1927)
  • H 977.417 M77

Tombstone Inscriptions in Kalamazoo County, Michigan: A Bicentennial Project

  • Kalamazoo Valley Genealogical Society
  • 1980
  • H 977.417 K145

Articles

“Two 19-year-olds face ‘grave robbing’ charges”

  • Kalamazoo Gazette, 18 October 1965, page 1, column 2.

Local History Room Files

History room vital records card file

  • Transcription taken summer 1927.

Websites

Kalamazoo County, Michigan Cemeteries on the Web

  • Transcription – date unknown

Find A Grave

  • Forty records

Last updated 18 July 2012.