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Shaver Burial Ground


Location: South side of West VW Avenue approximately ½ mile west of South 8th Street.
Status: Inactive, maintained by Prairie Ronde Township – 2 graves
shaver-sign-240  shaver-stone-240

Photos: Beth Timmerman, 2010

Sources

Books

Tombstone Inscriptions in Kalamazoo County, Michigan: A Bicentennial Project

Kalamazoo Valley Genealogical society
1980 (Shaver Burial Ground, 1975)
H 977.417 K145

Articles

“Farm burial place of pioneers”

Kalamazoo Gazette, 30 June 1946, page 12, column 3

Websites

Kalamazoo County, Michigan Cemeteries on the Web

Transcription and photos, 2006

The Tombstone Transcription Project, Kalamazoo County- Michigan USGenWeb

Transcription and photo, 2011

Find A Grave

Two records, with photos.
Last updated 9 August 2012.

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