Mouth Cemetery

Mouth Cemetery is a Michigan historical marker in Montague, Muskegon County, dedicated 1994.

6666 Sunset Lane, Montague

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The earliest identified grave in this cemetery, the oldest burial ground in White River Township, dates from 1851. According to an 1850 deed, however, there were graves here prior to that time. Seventy-six nineteenth-century burials are marked, although remnants of wooden crosses found on the site may have indicated other graves. Many of the area’s pioneers are interred here including Captain William Robinson, the first keeper of the White River Light, who died in 1919, and Quismoqua Anderson, an Ottawa woman who died at age 110 years in 1897.

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Historical maps covering this location

1848 · Michigan. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1852 · Wisconsin (Cowperthwait, 1852) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1853 · Map of the surveyed part of Michigan (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1854 · A map of the surveyed part of Michigan / by John Farmer ; engraved by S. Stiles & Co. (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
1874 · Colton's Michigan (1874) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Map of the surveyed part of Michigan, 1853, covering the location of Mouth Cemetery, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Map of the surveyed part of Michigan, 1853, covering this location. Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Mouth Cemetery

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