Cole Burial Ground (Pretty Lake)
Location: Off Q Avenue on the northwest side of Pretty Lake in Pretty Lake Camp.
Status: Inactive, private – two marked graves
Photos: Beth Timmerman, 2010
Sources
Books
Tombstone Inscriptions in Kalamazoo County, Michigan: A Bicentennial Project
Kalamazoo Valley Genealogical Society
1980 (Cole Burial Ground, 1974)
H 977.417 K145
Articles
“Two graves, among oldest in county, found at Pretty Lake”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 13 March 1927, page 7, column 2
“Grave of Stephen Cole, Pretty Lake, believed county’s oldest”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 2 July 1939, page 21, column 2
Websites
Transcription and photos – complete through April 2006