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Local History

East Cooper Cemetery

Cooper Township

Location: Southeast corner of East D Avenue and North Riverview Drive.

Status: Active
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Photos: Beth Timmerman. 2010

Sources

Original Records

Cooper Charter Township

  • 1590 West D Avenue
  • Kalamazoo, Michigan 49009
  • 269-382-0223

Books

Cemetery records of Kalamazoo County, Michigan

  • Monteith, Ruth Robbins
  • Genealogical Association of Southwestern Michigan
  • 1959 (East Cooper Cemetery, 1926)
  • H 977.417 M77

Tombstone Inscriptions in Kalamazoo County, Michigan: A Bicentennial Project

  • Kalamazoo Valley Genealogical Society
  • 1980 (East Cooper Cemetery, September 1973)
  • H 977.417 K145

Cemetery Readings in Kalamazoo County, Michigan: Cooper Township

  • Sanborn, Elmer C.
  • Kalamazoo Valley Genealogical Society
  • 1999
  • H 977.417 K145.2

Local History Room Files

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

  • Transcriptions through 1926

Websites

The Tombstone Transcription Project, Kalamazoo County- Michigan USGenWeb

  • Partial list with photos

Find A Grave

  • About 800 records, some with photos and additional information

Last updated 16 May 2012.

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