Pere Cheney Cemetery

Beaver Creek Township

Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Norman Bancroft noba@i2k.com. Transcribed - May 1999. This cemetery, Pere Cheney, is located in Beaver Creek Township, Crawford Co., MI.  Vandals have destroyed all but a few of the monuments. Pieces of the monuments have  been gather and used to contain the bonsires they have at night. A good share of  the cemetery lawn has been destroyed by motorcyclists doing wheelies.

Pere Cheney

Block A Lot

            25 Ethel May Webster
            29 Mrs Lowell Fox, died 9 Sep 1921, age 73 yrs
            29 Lowell Fox
            30 Mrs Timothy Webster, died 25 May 1892
            31 Theodore Rosevelt Damoth, 31 Oct 1922
            38 Ernest Taylor, died 6 Apr 1913, age 1 1⁄2 dys
            40 Mrs Timothy Webster, died 25 May 1892
            41 Thedore Rosevelt Damoth, died 22 Oct 1911, age 9
            43 Mrs Charles D Vincent, died 1894
            48 Mrs Charles D Vincent, died 1894

            48 Mrs Peteerson [no record - buried in alley]

Block B Lot

            19 Baby Golnick, 12 Nov 1922
            30 Mrs Lewis Riff, 6 Nov 1921, body taken up and moved to Chicago 30 Apr 1945
               by Mr Butler Undertaker 128 North James St., Ludington, MI. Morris Funeral
               Home
            35 Martha Golnick, 27 May 1910, age 23yrs, 2mo, & 7dys
            35 Charles Golnick, 5 Dec 1908, age 80 minutes [permature birth]
            35 Charles Golnick, died 6 Dec 1909
            37 Richard Francis James, died 6 Feb 1916, age 1mo & 16dys
            38 Clara Bell Kile, 23 May 1925, age 62 [Frank Taylor's lot]
            38 Frank Taylor
            40 Amey Mary Rogers, 5 Aug 1924, age 55
            40 Charles Cook
            47 Silas J Cook, killed by train in 1918, age 78
            49 Cecil Wilson Kile, died 12 Oct 1915, age 17dys
            49 Lynn Kile [burried from mausaleum in Grayling 5-1-63]
            50 William Earl Nicholas, died Jan 1915, age 4 hrs
        50 William E Nicholes, born 1886, died 3 Apr 1918,age 32yrs, 7mos, & 7dys
        50 Mrs William Nicholes
        51 Mr William Johnson, died 30 Mar 1912, age 73
        51 Sally A Johnson, died 31 Jan 1913, age 69
        51 Emily Jane Phillips, died 30 Jul 1916, age 77
        51 Mercy Burton, 10 Aug 1906, age 72

        51 James Burton, died 20 Dec 1906, age 85 yrs

Block C Lot

            10 Seymor Sewell
            10 Blanch Sewell
            17 Francis Judson

            35 Child Grave - Parent Unknown

Block D Lot

             1 Mrs Wm Woodburn & Son
             3 Islay J Sewell, 10 Jul 1920, age 18
             5 Hattie Johnson [mistake alley], 27 Mar 1893
             5 Choloe Johnson, 27 Mar 1893
             5 Louisa Johnson, 7 Feb 1893
             6 Eliza Sewell, Jul 192?, age 75 yrs
             6 Ira J Sewell, 20 May 1912
             7 Childs Grave - Parents Unknown
             8 ? M Davis
             8 Son of ? M Davis
             9 ? W West [vacated]
             9 Mrs Wm Putman
             9 Child of L B Merrill
            11 Lemon Sewell
            12 John West
            12 China West
            15 Sopn of E R & M Schrader, died 16 Dec 1901
            16 Hy ?shentfelter & wife, 7 Nov 1898
            17 George Arthur Kile, 1yr, 11mo burried 5 Jan 1909
            17 Alice Roberta Wiseman, 24 may 1918, age 5wks
            23 Frank Dumphie, 2 May 1919, age 77
               Kathy N Dumphie, 2 Feb 192?

            24 Ed Connely & wife 9 Jan 1909

Block E Lot

             1 Wm Vallad
             1 Margaret Matilda Vallad, 18 Apr 1895
             2 Frank E Barber
             2 Adelia Barber, 16 Dec 1893
               Ray Barber, 26 Dec 1893
               Roy Barber, 30 Dec 1893
             3 Charles Richardson
             3 Nina Richardson, 4 mar 1916, age 55
             3 C J Richardson, child of
             3 Charles Ira Richardson, 31 Dec 1939, age 71
             8 Elmer Ostrander [Lona Ostrander purchased lot]
             9 Frank Deckrow, child of
             9 R W Wilcox, child of, 2 Sep 1895
            10 John R Skingsley, 14 Aug 1936, age 74
            10 Bertha Skingsley
            10 William Alex Skingsley, 5 Jun 1916, age 31
            32 William Wilcox [Gwakin Mary E]
            32 Wm Wilcox, child of [Baby Maudy], 1893

            32 Mary E G Watkin, 1893

Block F Lot

             9 Donald ODell
             9 Wm Wilson, born 28 Dec 1825, died 16 Jan 1896 [grandfather of C T Bartow
               Rt 4 Box 124, Mio, MI
             9 James B ODell, 25 Aug 1904, age 78
            16 A M ODell
            16 Theodore ODell, 1868 - 11 Oct 1914, age 47 [gunshot wound]
            25 D L Jacobs, child of
            49 Grave of man frozen to death

            65 Father & Wife of George Bonnell

Potters Field

            43 Unknown
            44 Unknown
            49 Twin Babies - Parents Unknown
            50 Childs Grave