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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
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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

Kalamazoo County, Michigan Cemeteries on the Web

Transcription and photos – complete through April 2006

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