The Political Graveyard: Clinton County, Mich.

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Clinton County
Michigan

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Clinton County

Index to Locations

DeWitt DeWitt Cemetery

DeWitt Township Hurd Cemetery

Eagle North Eagle Cemetery

Eagle Township Niles Cemetery

Elsie Riverside Cemetery

Fowler Most Holy Trinity Cemetery

Gunnisonville Gunnisonville Cemetery

Near Maple Rapids Sowle Cemetery

Ovid Maple Grove Cemetery

St. Johns Mt. Rest Cemetery

Wacousta Wacousta Cemetery

DeWitt Cemetery
DeWitt, Clinton County, Michigan

Politicians buried here:

Randolph Strickland (1823-1880) — of DeWitt, Clinton County, Mich. Born in Dansville, Livingston County, N.Y., February 4, 1823. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1856, 1868; member of Michigan state senate 22nd District, 1861-62; U.S. Representative from Michigan 6th District, 1869-71; defeated, 1870. Died in Battle Creek, Calhoun County, Mich., May 5, 1880 (age 57 years, 91 days). Interment at DeWitt Cemetery.

See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page

Mary Pattison (1926-2006) — of Michigan. Born April 11, 1926. Democrat. Candidate in primary for Michigan state house of representatives 58th District, 1974. Female. Catholic. Died December 30, 2006 (age 80 years, 263 days). Interment at DeWitt Cemetery.

Relatives: Married to Frank V. Wierzbicki.

Hurd Cemetery
DeWitt Township, Clinton County, Michigan

Politicians buried here:

Dora Hall Stockman (1872-1948) — also known as Dora H. Stockman; Dora Hall; Dora Weinkauf — of Lansing, Ingham County, Mich.; East Lansing, Ingham County, Mich. Born in a log cabin at Marilla, Manistee County, Mich., August 4, 1872. Daughter of Leander Hall and Lucy Jane (Bennet) Hall. Republican. School teacher; lecturer of the Michigan State Grange, and editor of the Grange paper, the Michigan Patron; member of Michigan state board of agriculture, 1920-31; Dry candidate for delegate to Michigan convention to ratify 21st amendment from Ingham County 2nd District, 1933; member of Michigan state house of representatives from Ingham County 2nd District, 1939-46. Female. Member, Grange; Women's Christian Temperance Union. First woman to hold statewide elective office in Michigan. Died in California, 1948 (age about 75 years). Interment at Hurd Cemetery.

Relatives: Daughter of Leander Hall and Lucy Jane (Bennet) Hall; married, August 8, 1889, to Francis M. Stockman (died 1932); married 1947 to Gustof Weinkauf.

North Eagle Cemetery
Eagle, Clinton County, Michigan

Politicians buried here:

John Paxton Espie (1881-1949) — also known as John P. Espie — of Eagle, Clinton County, Mich. Born in Moscow Township, Hillsdale County, Mich., February 14, 1881. Republican. Member of Michigan state house of representatives from Clinton County, 1923-32, 1935-49; defeated, 1932; died in office 1949. Episcopalian. Member, Grange; Farm Bureau; Freemasons; Odd Fellows. Died December 2, 1949 (age 68 years, 291 days). Interment at North Eagle Cemetery.

		Relatives: Married 1904 to Edith H. Sprague (1880-1932); married 1933 to Alice Sexton Slocum.
		See also Find-A-Grave memorial

Niles Cemetery
Eagle Township, Clinton County, Michigan

Politicians buried here:

Philo Doty — of Clinton County, Mich. Member of Michigan state house of representatives from Clinton County 1st District, 1869-72. Interment at Niles Cemetery.

Relatives: Great-grandfather of Dean B. Doty.

Riverside Cemetery
Elsie, Clinton County, Michigan

Politicians buried here:

Andrew Whitney Cobb (1911-1975) — also known as Andrew W. Cobb — of Duplain Township, Clinton County, Mich. Born in Duplain Township, Clinton County, Mich., February 12, 1911. Republican. Farmer; member of Michigan state house of representatives, 1950-64 (Clinton County 1950-54, Eaton District 1955-64); candidate in primary for Michigan state senate 30th District, 1964; candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan, 1968. Methodist. Member, Freemasons; Grange; Farm Bureau. Died in St. Johns, Clinton County, Mich., January 21, 1975 (age 63 years, 343 days). Interment at Riverside Cemetery.

		Relatives: Married, October 31, 1936, to E. Jean Mansfield (1912-2005).
		See also Find-A-Grave memorial

Most Holy Trinity Cemetery
Fowler, Clinton County, Michigan

Politicians buried here:

Herbert Armbrustmacher (1872-1960) — of Clinton County, Mich. Born in 1872. Democrat. Candidate for Michigan state house of representatives from Clinton County, 1916; delegate to Michigan convention to ratify 21st amendment from Clinton County, 1933. Died in 1960 (age about 88 years). Interment at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery.

See also Find-A-Grave memorial

Gunnisonville Cemetery
Gunnisonville, Clinton County, Michigan

Politicians buried here:

Glenn T. Cheney (1923-1999) — of Clinton County, Mich. Born August 12, 1923. Democrat. Candidate for Michigan state house of representatives from Clinton County, 1952. Died February 8, 1999 (age 75 years, 180 days). Interment at Gunnisonville Cemetery.

See also Find-A-Grave memorial

Sowle Cemetery
Near Maple Rapids, Clinton County, Michigan

Politicians buried here:

Edward William Fehling (1880-1957) — also known as Edward W. Fehling — of St. Johns, Clinton County, Mich. Born in Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis., June 27, 1880. Son of Otto Fehling and Helen (Newman) Fehling. Republican. Lawyer; Clinton County Prosecuting Attorney, 1915-20; director and attorney for Farmers State Savings Bank, and State Bank of St. Johns; member of Michigan state senate 15th District, 1935-38; delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1936; candidate in primary for Lieutenant Governor of Michigan, 1938; candidate for circuit judge in Michigan 29th Circuit, 1941 (primary), 1942. Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons; Knights Templar; Order of the Eastern Star; Odd Fellows; Grange. Died, in Clinton Memorial Hospital, St. Johns, Clinton County, Mich., August 10, 1957 (age 77 years, 44 days). Interment at Sowle Cemetery.

Relatives: Married, June 7, 1908, to Mary G. Boyle (1881-1960).

Maple Grove Cemetery
Ovid, Clinton County, Michigan

Politicians buried here:

Adam Beattie (1833-1893) — of Ovid, Clinton County, Mich. Born in Seneca County, N.Y., November 26, 1833. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; sawmill owner; member of Michigan state senate 17th District, 1873-74; postmaster. Congregationalist. Scottish ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Grand Army of the Republic. Died June 26, 1893 (age 59 years, 212 days). Interment at Maple Grove Cemetery.

		Relatives: Married to Mary E. Hand.
		See also Find-A-Grave memorial

Mt. Rest Cemetery
St. Johns, Clinton County, Michigan

Politicians buried here:

John Swegles, Jr. (1819-1861) — of Michigan. Born in Hector, Schuyler County, N.Y., April 15, 1819. Founder of St. Johns, Michigan; Michigan state auditor general, 1851-54. Died in St. Johns, Clinton County, Mich., December 17, 1861 (age 42 years, 246 days). Interment at Mt. Rest Cemetery.

Relatives: Father-in-law of Oliver Lyman Spaulding.

Kelly S. Searl (1862-1942) — also known as Kelley S. Searl — of Ithaca, Gratiot County, Mich.; St. Johns, Clinton County, Mich. Born in Fairfield, Shiawassee County, Mich., February 1, 1862. Son of Chauncey D. Searl and Harriet E. (Kelley) Searl. Republican. Lawyer; circuit judge in Michigan 29th Circuit, 1906-17, 1927-42; died in office 1942. Methodist. Member, Freemasons; Odd Fellows; Knights of Pythias; Maccabees. Died April 28, 1942 (age 80 years, 86 days). Interment at Mt. Rest Cemetery.

		Relatives: Married, September 30, 1885, to Maggie A. Smith.
		See also Find-A-Grave memorial

Henry E. Walbridge (1850-1927) — of St. Johns, Clinton County, Mich. Born in Glover, Orleans County, Vt., March 31, 1850. Son of Henry Walbridge (born 1820) and Zilpha (Allen) Walbridge. Lawyer; delegate to Michigan state constitutional convention 19th District, 1907-08. Died in 1927 (age about 77 years). Interment at Mt. Rest Cemetery.

		Relatives: Second cousin twice removed of Ebenezer William Walbridge and Henry Sanford Walbridge; third cousin once removed of David Safford Walbridge and Hiram Walbridge; son of Henry Walbridge (born 1820) and Zilpha (Allen) Walbridge; half-brother of John Hill Walbridge; fourth cousin once removed of Cyrus Packard Walbridge. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams family of New York.
		See also Find-A-Grave memorial

William Henry Brunson (1858-1932) — also known as Will H. Brunson — of St. Johns, Clinton County, Mich. Born in 1858. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1908. Died in 1932 (age about 74 years). Interment at Mt. Rest Cemetery.

See also Find-A-Grave memorial

Leo J. Amspoker (1894-1958) — of Gratiot County, Mich. Born in 1894. Democrat. Democratic candidate for Michigan state house of representatives from Gratiot County, 1950 (primary), 1950, 1952. Died in 1958 (age about 64 years). Interment at Mt. Rest Cemetery.

See also Find-A-Grave memorial

Goldie Palmer Brooks (1891-1974) — also known as Goldie P. Brooks; Goldie Palmer — of St. Johns, Clinton County, Mich. Born in 1891. Republican. Member of Michigan Republican State Central Committee, 1939. Female. Died in 1974 (age about 83 years). Interment at Mt. Rest Cemetery.

See also Find-A-Grave memorial

Albert Thornton Allaby (1903-1982) — also known as A. T. Allaby — of St. Johns, Clinton County, Mich. Born in Canada, October 7, 1903. Republican. Member of Michigan Republican State Central Committee, 1947-49; chair of Clinton County Republican Party, 1950; delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1952. Congregationalist. Died in St. Johns, Clinton County, Mich., April 7, 1982 (age 78 years, 182 days). Interment at Mt. Rest Cemetery.

See also Find-A-Grave memorial

Wacousta Cemetery
Wacousta, Clinton County, Michigan

Politicians buried here:

Eric E. Kauma (1930-2004) — of Eagle, Clinton County, Mich. Born June 29, 1930. Lawyer; candidate in primary for circuit judge in Michigan 29th Circuit, 1978. Died November 22, 2004 (age 74 years, 146 days). Interment at Wacousta Cemetery.

See also Find-A-Grave memorial

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