Joyfield Cemetery

Joyfield Cemetery is a Michigan historical marker in Benzonia, Benzie County, dedicated 2004.

5490 Benzie Hwy., Benzonia

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William Davis, the son of a plantation owner and a slave woman, came here with his wife, Mildred Brand, and their children in 1863. They were among the area´s first black landowners. Upon the death of his daughter in 1870, William Davis sold five acres of land to the township for this cemetery. Early burials include Amariah Joy, the township´s first white settler, for whom Joyfield Township was named. The township built the town hall here in 1887.

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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1852 · Wisconsin (Cowperthwait, 1852) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1854 · A map of the surveyed part of Michigan / by John Farmer ; engraved by S. Stiles & Co. (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
1864 · Wisconsin And Michigan (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1873 · Michigan. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1874 · Colton's Michigan (1874) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Colton's Michigan (1874), 1874, covering the location of Joyfield Cemetery, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Colton's Michigan (1874), 1874, covering this location. Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Joyfield Cemetery

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