The Ladner Cemetery is located in Section 10 of Mecosta Township on the north east corner of Hayes Road and 205th Avenue. this is about 3/4 of a mile west of old U.S. 131 in Rogers Heights.
HISTORYWilliam Ladner was born in Cornwall County, England on 1 NOV 1834, son of James and Jane Ladner. His parents and eight children came to America in 1851. They settled on a farm located in Kent County, Michigan.In 1856 William Ladner settled on an eighty acre timbered tract of land in Mecosta Township, Mecosta County, Michigan, and thereafter purchased land in Mecosta Township until he owned 440 acres. In 1876 and again in 1880 he was elected Probate Judge and was known as Honorable William Ladner. On October 2, 1875, William Ladner and his wife Lucy A. Ladner, deeded by warranty deed, two and one half acres of land to the Township of Mecosta, for the sum of $75.00. The deed is recorded in Libre 22, page 192, in the office of the Register of Deeds for Mecosta County, Michigan. The parcel of land is described as a square parcel containing two and one half acres out of the southwest corner of the west half of the northeast quarter of Section 10 of Mecosta Township, Mecosta County, Michigan, for the purpose of a cemetery. William Ladner and his wife, Lucy A. Ladner, are buried in the cemetery. The cemetery has been known as Ladner Cemetery since the land was deeded by William Ladner and wife to Mecosta Township. Mecosta Township presently contracts mowing from its own employees and uses Moore's Cemetery Service for burials. In the past, numerous township residents have served as sextonof the Ladner Cemetery. Some of these people are: Walter Ladner, Florus Lightfoot, Steven J. McGorman, L.B. Wilkinson, Thomas McGorman, Henry Osborne, and Wilson Wilkinson. Many of whom are buried in the cemetery. Ladner Cemetery BurialsDECEASED-----------------------------------------------------------------------------DATE OF DEATH Anderson, Peter Andrew -- 19 Nov 1928 Johnson, Arthur H. --- 1916 Johnson, Carl Oscar --- 13 Dec 1978 Johnson, Hannah J. -- 28 Apr 1958 Johnson, Samuel Amandus --- 22 May 1937 Knettles, GMD --- 6 Apr 1939 Knettles, Susan A. --- 11 Jan 1917 Ladner, Clare Bell --- 3 Jan 1948 Ladner, Eddie Ladner, Edith L. --- 8 Aug 1985 Ladner, Edward --- 1885 Ladner, Fred I. --- Ladner, George -- 1962 Ladner, Lawrence -- 13 Feb 1904 Ladner, Lucy Ann -- 10 Jan 1915 Ladner, Lyle ---- 4 Dec 1987 Ladner, William --- 26 Feb 1906 Ladner, Willie J. --- 1885 LaFountain, Baby --- Lambert, Elizabeth A. ---- 6 Feb 1917 Lambert, John --- 20 Nov 1925 Lewis, Hazel --- Lightfoot, Baby --- 7 Jul 1926 Lightfoot, Baby --- 25 May 1919 Lightfoot, Byron R. --- 1882 Lightfoot, Florus C. --- 2 Mar 1964 Lightfoot, Gladdis Opal -- 1898 Lightfoot, Jacob B. -- 19 Apr 1902 Lightfoot, Joseph --- Lightfoot, Margaret --- 1919 Lightfoot, Nancy --- 21 Apr 1908 Lightfoot, Nancy A. --- 13 May 1939 Lutz, Christian --- 14 Mar 1918 Lutz, Jim Jacob --- 1942 McCarty, Cora --- 18 Mar 1879 McGorman, Brian Lee -- 24 Mar 1961 McGorman, Doris Marian -- 1938 McGorman, Glendon James --- 5 Aug 1923 McGorman, James --- 5 Jun 1954 McGorman, James R. --- 4 Apr 1987 McGorman, John --- 24 Feb 1971 McGorman, Richard L. --- 20 Jul 1968 McGorman, Maud E. --- 11 Nov 1962 McGorman, Sadie Mae ----3 Feb 1976 McGorman, Thomas --- 25 Dec 1935 McGorman, Thomas F. --- 9 Dec 1977 McGorman, Thomas W. --- 8 Feb 1964 McGuire, Felix ---29 Dec 1967 McGuire, Hugh --- 18 Oct 1984 McGuire, Sylvester --- 27 Aug 1956 McGuire, William Tracy -- 3 Nov 1965 McLaughlan, Katy -- 14 Mar 1902 Mapes, Joseph --- 9 Jul 1919 Mapes, Sarah --- 15 Feb 1935 Mapes, Clarence J. -- 1 Nov 1959 Mapes, Grace Mary -- 8 Dec 1951 Mason, John --- 10 Jun 1914 Maxham, Mary --- 1931 Miller, Bertha L. --- 1972 Miller, Emma --- 1936 Miller, Mabel --- Munn, Edna Joyce -- 11 Mar 1986 Munn, Lester J. ----6 Aug 1990 Myers, Lester I. --- 16 Oct 1970 Myers, Mildred E. --- 17 Jul 1991 Myron, George --- Newton, Abner --- 30 Jan 1922 Newton, Abner --- 22 Oct 1909 Newton, Alton -- 2 Jun 1908 Newton, Amos Windbeaked --- 20 Sep 1922 Newton, Baby --- 14 May 1904 Newton, Carlton ---1 Jul 1907 Newton, Fannie --- 25 Mar 1911 Newton, Miles Onelton --- 9 Jan 1904 Nichols, Lottie --- 7 Nov 1902 Oman, James D. --- 17 Mar 1983 Oman, Martha Lena --- 19 Dec 1925 Oman, Stillborn --- 16 Oct 1907 Pfhistner, Charles --- 5 Jan 1939 Pfhistner, Clifford --- 14 Jun 1917 Pfhistner, Eliza -- Pfhistner, John W. --- 6 Feb 1923 Pfhistner, Little Charley -- Pfhistner, Lucile May -- 6 Dec 1914 Pfhistner, Martha -- 18 Jun 1927 Pfhistner, Stillborn --- 20 May 1927 Pierce, Kittie --- 2 Sep 1904 Pool, Eliza --- 21 Nov 1921 Porter, Walter H. --- 12 Jul 1994 Randall, Peggy Lynn -- 28 May 1989 Reedy, Robert Ralph -- 10 May 1936 Rogers, C.S. (Calvin Selden)died 10 Nov 1885 Rogers, Emily --- 25 May 1919 Rogers, Jack --- 21 Oct 1912 Sawyer, Almond James ---- 12 Apr 1953 Sawyer, Emma Burton Spoor --- 1940 Sawyer, Florence M. --- 3 Jul 1953 Sawyer, Hazel M. --- 17 Feb 1987 Sawyer, Herbert --- 26 Jul 1984 Sawyer, Herbert --- Sawyer, James --- 1 Mar 1918 Sawyer, Juliette ---28 Jan 1961 Sawyer, Mary ---- Sawyer, Mary Harriet -- 7 May 1920 Sawyer, Willard L. --- 26 Nov 1937 Schort, Baby --- 14 Jul 1911 Schort, Bernice M. -- 3 Apr 1916 Schort, Catherine E. --- 11 Jul 1908 Schort, Florence --- 1 Jun 1901 Schort, Fordyce --4 Dec 1924 Schort, John P. --- 7 Nov 1913 Schort, John P. Jr. --- 30 Jan 1917 Schort, Katherine L. -- 12 Nov 1921 Schort, Susanna B. -- 20 Mar 1996 Schort, William F. --- 24 Jan 1953 Schort, Willis G. ---25 Jan 1903 Seaman, Albert --- 8 Apr 1900 Seaman, Earl --- 1891 Seaman, Ernestine --- 4 Dec 1934 Seaman, Henry -- 8 Jan 1918 Seaman, John -- 22 Jan 1930 Seaman, Katherine --- 1903 Seaman, Leona May -- 13 Oct 1914 Seaman, Olive Russell -- 1896 Seaman, Orville --- 1887 Seaman, Parmer --- 1890 Sharp, JHO ----- Sheneman, Baby -- 14 Jan 1917 Sherman, Ida --- 10 Dec 1900 (Later removed to Goodwell Cemetery) Sherman, William R. --- 18 Mar 1984 Sherrod, Lynn V. --- 1973 Sherrod, Pearl M. -- 1984 Shippell, Joseph M. -- 11 Apr 1959 Shippell, William --- 4 Dec 1916 Shippell, William -- 1890 Short, Katherine --- 12 Nov 1921 Slade, Leslie --- 26 Mar 1922 Slade, Suzanne --- 25 Apr 1934 Slater, Alta A. --- 26 Jun 1971 Slater, Roy Merton --- 6 Oct 1971 Slocum, Otis --- 3 Mar 1898 Slocum, Walter --- Stallman, Alice Emma --- 17 Mar 1997 Stillbirth --- 31 Aug 1913 Stroud, E.B. --- 1894 Stroud, Elias B. --- Stroud, R.A. --- 1920 Stroud, Roxie Ann -- 24 Mar 1920 Summer, Muriel/Minnie --- 16 Oct 1900 Taylor, Gerald ---9 Sep 1967 Tiff, Emma F. --- Tiff, William --- 9 Feb 1906 Tonkin, Clyde B. --- 28 Dec 1939 Traina, Angelo B. -- 4 Nov 1971 Traina, Ida May Lafferty -- 26 Aug 1986 Truax, Eliza E. -- 1918 Truax, Louisa May ---31 Mar 1915 Upper, Catherine --- 12 Nov 1902 Vining, Laurel V. --- 8 Sep 1976 Waldo, Catherine M. --- 8 Dec 1916 Waldo, George --- Waldo, Orphu E. --- 7 Nov 1903 Waldo, Tressa --- 25 Feb 1901 Waldo, William Henry ---9 Nov 1977 Warner, Eliza --- 22 Dec 1916 Warner, John ---10 Mar 1910 Warren, Emma ---17 Jan 1936 Weborg, Arild --- 25 Aug 1963 Weborg, Anna (Memorial Stone) 1940 Weborg, Julius (Memorial Stone) 1925 Wedge, Alice --- 11 Mar 1909 Wedge, Hannah --- 23 May 1901 Wedge, John ---18 Jan 1922 Yarrington, Alvin --- 20 Jun 1969 Yarrington, Ralph -----1998 |