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Local History

Beard Cemetery (Baird) (Leonidas)

Location: South 38th Street, across from the intersection with East Z Avenue, Fulton.
Status: Active, cemetery is partially in Wakeshma Township, the rest in Leonidas Township, St. Joseph County.
beard-sign-240  beard-view-240

Photos: Beth Timmerman, 2010

Sources

Original Records

Leonidas Township

53312 Fulton Road
Leonidas, MI 49066
269-496-7837

Books

Tombstone Inscriptions in Kalamazoo County, Michigan: A Bicentennial Project

Kalamazoo Valley Genealogical Society
1980
H 977.417 K145

Websites

Kalamazoo County, Michigan Cemeteries on the Web

Transcription – complete through October 2003
Cemetery is half in Kalamazoo County, half in St. Joseph County – transcription is for entire cemetery
Includes other genealogical information

The Tombstone Transcription Project, Kalamazoo County- Michigan USGenWeb

Transcription and photos, 2007

Find A Grave

More than 300 records, some with photos and additional information.
Last updated 16 August 2012.