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Local History

Galesburg Cemetery (Old Galesburg)

Comstock Township

Location: West side of Division Street, approximately 200 feet north of Hastings Avenue, west side of Ike Payne Park near water tower, Galesburg
Status: Inactive
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Photos: Beth Timmerman, 2010

Sources

Original Records

City of Galesburg

  • 200 E. Michigan Avenue
  • Galesburg, Mich. 49053
  • 269-665-7000

Books

Cemetery records of Kalamazoo County, Michigan

  • Monteith, Ruth Robbins
  • Genealogical Association of Southwestern Michigan
  • 1959 (Galesburg 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

The Oak Grove Cemetery & Old City Cemetery, City of Galesburg, Kalamazoo County, Michigan: A Compilation of Interments with Biographical and Genealogical Notations

  • Smith, Sydney
  • 1999
  • H 977.417 S661

Local History Room Files

History room vital records card file: available online at Kalamazoo Genealogy

  • Transcription taken summer 1927

Websites

The Tombstone Transcription Project, Kalamazoo County- Michigan USGenWeb

  • Transcription and photos – presumed complete

Find A Grave

  • More than 400 records, some with photos and additional information.

Last updated 18 July 2012.

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