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Local History

Portage South Cemetery (South Portage)

Location: Northeast corner of South Westnedge Avenue and West Osterhout Avenue.
Status: Active
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Photos: Beth Timmerman, 2010

Sources

Original Records

Portage City Hall

7900 South Westnedge Avenue
Portage, MI 49002
269-329-4400

Books

Cemetery records of Kalamazoo County, Michigan

Monteith, Ruth Robbins
Genealogical Association of Southwestern Michigan
1959 (Portage South Cemetery, 1913)
H977.417 M77

Tombstone Inscriptions in Kalamazoo County, Michigan: A Bicentennial Project

Kalamazoo Valley Genealogical Society
1980 (Portage South Cemetery, 1976)
H 977.417 K145

Websites

City of Portage

Current and historical burial information

Kalamazoo County, Michigan Cemeteries on the Web

Transcription and photos – complete through June 2006

The Tombstone Transcription Project, Kalamazoo County- Michigan USGenWeb

Partial list with photos

Kalamazoo Genealogy

Search entire cemetery database by individual names
Transcription and photos, 2007

Find A Grave

More than 1600 records, some with photos and additional information.

Last updated 5 February 2015.

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