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Fort Custer Post / Fort Custer National Cemetery


Location: North side of East Augusta Drive.
Status: Active
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Photos: Beth Timmerman, 2010

Sources

Original Records

Fort Custer National Cemetery

15501 Dickman Road
Augusta, MI 49012
269-731-4164

Books

Tombstone Inscriptions in Kalamazoo County, Michigan: A Bicentennial Project

Kalamazoo Valley Genealogical Society
1980 (Post Cemetery only, January 1975)
Includes 26 German POWs, 14 were killed in a truck accident in 1945
H977.417 K145

Articles

For a full list of articles, consult our Local Information Index.

Websites

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Search site for veterans and family members buried in VA National Cemeteries, state veterans cemeteries, various other military and Department of Interior cemeteries, and for veterans buried in private cemeteries when the grave is marked with a government grave marker.

Kalamazoo County, Michigan Cemeteries on the Web

Records – complete through January 2008

The Tombstone Transcription Project, Kalamazoo County- Michigan USGenWeb

Transcription  – complete through 2006
Some photos

Kalamazoo Genealogy

Search entire cemetery database by individual names
Records through 2008

Find A Grave

About 28,000 interments. There are no individual records at this time, but there are several beautiful photos and a map of the cemetery.
Last updated 29 April 2014.

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