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Kalamazoo County Poor Farm Cemetery (Rest Home)

Comstock Township


Location: Michigan Avenue, River Oaks Park, near Morrow Lake 

Status: Inactive – no official records, exact site unknown
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Photos: Beth Timmerman, 2010

Sources

Books

Tombstone inscriptions in Kalamazoo County, Michigan: a bicentennial project

  • Kalamazoo Valley Genealogical Society
  • 1980 (Alamo Center Cemetery, 1976)
  • H 977.417 K145
  • Includes only one burial at the County Poor Farm

The poorhouses and poor farms of Michigan (2019)
Naldrett, Alan
H 362.5 N168, pages: 102-105


Zhang Legacy Collections Center Archives

Records of the Kalamazoo County Clerk
Non-circulating A-285 (RG 68-64) (A)  

This record group consists of various records of the Kalamazoo County Clerk for the years 1838-1931. The record group includes: minutes of the Highway Commission (1858-67); appointments of deputies by sheriffs, and oaths (1905-31); journal of the County Poor Board (1838-59); ledger of the Superintendent of the Poor (1863-71); record of County Relief Board for Spanish-American War servicemen’s families (1898-99); statement of state tax lands (1841-49); record of marriages (1866-81); inventory of county farm and home (1885-86), listing of items comprising the county farm and home for relief of the poor and indigent; and quit-claim and warranty deeds (ca. 1839-80).

 

Last updated 12 March 2024.

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