Sources

Books

Cemetery records of Kalamazoo County, Michigan

• Monteith, Ruth Robbins
• Genealogical Association of Southwestern Michigan
• 1959 (Shafter Burial Ground, October 1930)
• H 977.417 M77

Tombstone Inscriptions in Kalamazoo County, Michigan: A Bicentennial Project

• Kalamazoo Valley Genealogical Society
• 1980
• H 977.417 K145

Articles

“Shafter Pioneer Cemetery: the Ghost of Galesburg”

• Michigan Heritage
• Autumn 1961, volume 3, page 48
• See the next citation for a clarification of the information in this article.

“The Ghost of Galesburg: Mabel B. Shafter”

• Kalamazoo Valley Heritage
• Summer 1990, volume 15, page 12
• History Room File Storage : Genealogical Society, Kalamazoo Valley – Newsletters (1990).
• There is an additional copy of this in the History Room Subject File : Cemeteries

“Unkept graves of General Wlliam R. Shafter’s parents in small family cemetery
near Galesburg”

• Kalamazoo Gazette
• 11 December 1927, page 8, column 2
• There is a copy of this in the History Room Cemeteries Scrapbook #1, page 3

Local History Room Files

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

• Transcription, 1930

Websites

Kalamazoo County, Michigan Cemeteries on the Web

• Transcriptions and photos, 2007

Find A Grave

• Eleven records.

Last updated 14 February 2013.