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Index to Locations
Dundee Maple Grove Cemetery
Erie Brigham Cemetery
La Salle Roselawn Memorial Park
Maybee Northside Cemetery
Monroe Unknown location
Monroe Monroe Township Cemetery
Monroe St. Antoine's Cemetery
Monroe St. Joseph Cemetery
Monroe St. Mary's Cemetery
Monroe Woodland Cemetery
Near Monroe Forest Lawn Cemetery
South Rockwood Riverside Cemetery
Maple Grove
Cemetery
Dundee, Monroe County, Michigan
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William A. French (1849-1903) —
also known as Billy French —
of Dundee, Monroe
County, Mich.; Bell, Presque
Isle County, Mich.
Born in Pelham, Ontario,
March
2, 1849.
Republican. Member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Monroe County 2nd District,
1883-84; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Michigan, 1884;
Michigan
land commissioner, 1894-1900; appointed 1894.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of cancer,
in St. Mary's Hospital,
Saginaw, Saginaw
County, Mich., February
28, 1903 (age 53 years, 363
days).
Interment at Maple Grove Cemetery.
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Brigham
Cemetery
Erie, Monroe County, Michigan
Roselawn Memorial
Park
13299 South Dixie Highway
La Salle, Monroe County, Michigan
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Arthur W. Karch (1886-1940) —
of Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich.
Born in Frankfort, Will
County, Ill., 1886.
Physician;
surgeon;
founder of Monroe Hospital;
mayor
of Monroe, Mich., 1939-40; died in office 1940.
Died, in Monroe Hospital,
Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich., April
29, 1940 (age about 53
years).
Interment at Roselawn Memorial Park.
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William J. Agusta (1912-1999) —
of Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich.
Born May 16,
1912.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; mayor of
Monroe, Mich., 1964-65.
Died June 10,
1999 (age 87 years, 25
days).
Interment at Roselawn Memorial Park.
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Charles J. Golden (1921-2001) —
of Monroe
County, Mich.
Born in 1921.
Democrat. Member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Monroe County, 1955-56;
defeated, 1950; Monroe
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1957-64.
Died October
20, 2001 (age about 80
years).
Interment at Roselawn Memorial Park.
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Donald D. Doty (1923-2005) —
of Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich.
Born in Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich., November
11, 1923.
Republican. Farmer; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Monroe County,
1961-62.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Grange.
Died July 9,
2005 (age 81 years, 240
days).
Interment at Roselawn Memorial Park.
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Relatives: Son
of Guy Doty and Elsie (Reber) Doty; married to Beverly Mae
Carr. |
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Northside
Cemetery
Maybee, Monroe County, Michigan
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Daniel A. Knaggs (1887-1957) —
of Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich.
Born in Maybee, Monroe
County, Mich., 1887.
Republican. School
teacher; grocer; mayor of
Monroe, Mich., 1934-39; candidate for Michigan
state senate 19th District, 1934; Michigan Commissioner of Labor
and Industry, 1939; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Monroe County, 1943-44;
defeated in primary, 1944.
Member, Odd
Fellows; Moose; Elks; Eagles;
Maccabees;
Freemasons.
Died in 1957
(age about
70 years).
Interment at Northside Cemetery.
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Location
Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan
Monroe Township
Cemetery
Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan
St. Antoine's
Cemetery
Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan
St. Joseph
Cemetery
Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan
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John Camillus Lehr (1878-1958) —
also known as John C. Lehr —
of Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich.
Born in Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich., November
18, 1878.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Michigan
state senate 11th District, 1906 (Democratic), 1908; candidate
for Michigan
state board of education, 1931; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 2nd District, 1933-35; defeated,
1934; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1936;
U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, 1936-47.
Catholic.
Member, Maccabees;
Knights
of Columbus; Exchange
Club.
Died in Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich., February
17, 1958 (age 79 years, 91
days).
Interment at St. Joseph Cemetery.
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St. Mary's
Cemetery
Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan
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Raymond C. Kehres (1915-1998) —
of Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich.
Born in Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich., June 2,
1915.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1960;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives 39th District, 1965-80; defeated
in primary, 1962; candidate for Michigan
state senate 11th District, 1975.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Moose; Elks; Disabled
American Veterans.
Died February
27, 1998 (age 82 years, 270
days).
Interment at St. Mary's Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married 1941 to
Eleanor M. Payment. |
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Woodland
Cemetery
(formerly Grove Cemetery; Woodlawn Cemetery)
438 Jerome Street
Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan
Founded 1810
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
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Isaac Peckham Christiancy (1812-1890) —
also known as Isaac P. Christiancy —
of Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich.; Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born near Johnstown, Fulton
County, N.Y., March
12, 1812.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; Monroe
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1841-46; member of Michigan
state senate 3rd District, 1850-52; candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1852; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Michigan, 1856
(member, Platform
Committee); justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1858-75; resigned 1875; chief
justice of Michigan state supreme court, 1872-73; U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1875-79; resigned 1875; U.S. Minister to
Peru, 1879-81.
Died in Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., September
8, 1890 (age 78 years, 180
days).
Interment at Woodland Cemetery.
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George Spalding (1836-1915) —
of Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich.
Born in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland,
November
12, 1836.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; mayor of
Monroe, Mich., 1876; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 2nd District, 1895-99; postmaster at
Monroe,
Mich., 1901.
Died in Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich., September
13, 1915 (age 78 years, 305
days).
Interment at Woodland Cemetery.
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David Addison Noble (1802-1876) —
also known as David A. Noble —
of Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich.
Born in Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass., November
9, 1802.
Democrat. Member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Monroe County, 1846-47;
probate judge in Michigan, 1840; mayor of
Monroe, Mich., 1852; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 2nd District, 1853-55; defeated,
1854 (2nd District), 1864 (1st District).
Died in Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich., October
13, 1876 (age 73 years, 339
days).
Interment at Woodland Cemetery.
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Edwin Willits (1830-1896) —
of Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich.
Born in Otto, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., April
24, 1830.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; Monroe
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1860-62; member of Michigan
state board of education, 1861-72; postmaster;
member of Michigan
state constitutional commission 2nd District, 1873; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 2nd District, 1877-83.
Presbyterian.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
22, 1896 (age 66 years, 181
days).
Interment at Woodland Cemetery.
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Austin Eli Wing (1792-1849) —
also known as Austin E. Wing —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich.
Born in Conway, Franklin
County, Mass., February
3, 1792.
Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Michigan Territory, 1825-29, 1831-33;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Monroe County, 1842; member
of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1845-49.
Died in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, August
27, 1849 (age 57 years, 205
days).
Interment at Woodland Cemetery.
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James H. Gilmore (d. 1930) —
of Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich.
Mayor
of Monroe, Mich., 1922-25, 1930; died in office 1930.
Died in 1930.
Interment at Woodland Cemetery.
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Heman J. Redfield (1823-1883) —
of Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich.
Born in Le Roy, Genesee
County, N.Y., February
25, 1823.
Democrat. Mayor of
Monroe, Mich., 1871-75; member of Michigan
state senate 5th District, 1875-78; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Michigan, 1876,
1880
(alternate).
Killed
himself at his cemetery plot, Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich., September
9, 1883 (age 60 years, 196
days).
Interment at Woodland Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married 1855 to Ellen
Pickering. |
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Henry Shaw Noble (1839-1908) —
also known as H. Shaw Noble —
of Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich.
Born in Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich., December
19, 1839.
Merchant;
lawyer;
mayor
of Monroe, Mich., 1879-80, 1883-84; postmaster at Monroe,
Mich., 1887.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich., October
21, 1908 (age 68 years, 307
days).
Interment at Woodland Cemetery.
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Jesse Hart Root (d. 1934) —
also known as Jesse H. Root; Jess H. Root —
of Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich.
Republican. Circuit
judge in Michigan 38th Circuit, 1918-34; defeated, 1917;
appointed 1918; died in office 1934; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Michigan; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Michigan, 1932.
Died August
22, 1934.
Interment at Woodland Cemetery.
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Daniel S. Bacon (1798-1866) —
of Michigan.
Born in Onondaga
County, N.Y., December
12, 1798.
Member
Michigan territorial council 5th District, 1832-35.
Died March
18, 1866 (age 67 years, 96
days).
Interment at Woodland Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Father-in-law of Gen. George Armstrong Custer. |
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Gouverneur Morris (1809-1894) —
of Frenchtown Township, Monroe
County, Mich.; Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich.
Born in Springfield, Windsor
County, Vt., February
1, 1809.
Supervisor
of Frenchtown Township, Michigan, 1850-51; circuit
judge in Michigan 22nd Circuit, 1879-81.
Died in Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich., May 11,
1894 (age 85 years, 99
days).
Interment at Woodland Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Lewis
Richard Morris and Ellen Francis (Hunt) Morris; grandson of Richard
Morris; grandnephew of Lewis
Morris (1726-1798) and Gouverneur
Morris (1752-1816); great-grandnephew of Robert
Hunter Morris; second great-grandson of Lewis
Morris (1671-1746); first cousin once removed of Richard
Valentine Morris; second cousin of Elisha
Hunt Allen; second cousin once removed of Elijah
Hunt Mills, William
Fessenden Allen and Frederick
Hobbes Allen; second cousin twice removed of Oliver
Ellsworth and Gouverneur
Morris Carnochan (1865-1915); second cousin thrice removed of Gouverneur
Morris Carnochan (1892-1943); third cousin once removed of Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth, William
Wolcott Ellsworth and Abijah
Blodget; third cousin twice removed of Return
Jonathan Meigs, Sr., Jonathan
Ingersoll, Jared
Ingersoll, Josiah
Meigs, Oliver
Morgan Hungerford and Josiah
Quincy; third cousin thrice removed of Henry
Cabot Lodge Jr. and John
Davis Lodge; fourth cousin of Theodore
Davenport, Harrison
Blodget and William
Dean Kellogg; fourth cousin once removed of Martin
Chittenden, Return
Jonathan Meigs Jr., Charles
Jared Ingersoll, Henry
Meigs, Joseph
Reed Ingersoll, Ralph
Isaacs Ingersoll, Charles
Anthony Ingersoll, John
Adams Taintor, Henry
G. Taintor, Joseph
Pomeroy Root, John
Hill Walbridge, Walter
Harrison Blodget and Henry
E. Walbridge. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Morris-Ingersoll
family of New York and Connecticut; Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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William Gustave Gutmann (1862-1939) —
also known as William G. Gutmann —
of Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich.
Born in Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich., August
21, 1862.
Republican. Banker;
member of Michigan
Republican State Central Committee, 1911-19; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1920.
German
ancestry.
Died, from acute
myocarditis and arteriosclerosis,
in Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich., January
15, 1939 (age 76 years, 147
days).
Interment at Woodland Cemetery.
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Forest Lawn
Cemetery
Near Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan
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Eugene Clifford Betz (b. 1877) —
also known as Eugene C. Betz —
of Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich.
Born in Ash Township, Monroe
County, Mich., January
15, 1877.
Republican. School
teacher; Monroe
County Clerk, 1903-06; paper
manufacturer; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Monroe County, 1945-54;
defeated in primary, 1942.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners;
Order of the
Eastern Star.
Died in Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich.
Interment at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Philip D. Betz and Eliza Betz; married to Matilda J. Knapp and
Margaret Hunter. |
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Riverside
Cemetery
South Rockwood, Monroe County, Michigan
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John Strong Jr. (1830-1913) —
also known as "Honest John" —
of South Rockwood, Monroe
County, Mich.
Born, in a log
cabin, in Greenfield Township (now part of Detroit), Wayne
County, Mich., April 7,
1830.
Democrat. Farmer; merchant;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1861-62, 1879-80 (Wayne County
2nd District 1861-62, Monroe County 2nd District 1879-80); delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1880
(alternate), 1892,
1912
(alternate); member of Michigan
state senate 5th District, 1881-84; Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, 1891-92; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Michigan.
Member, Freemasons.
Founder of South Rockwood, Mich. Lost two
fingers on his right hand in a sawmill accident.
Died in South Rockwood, Monroe
County, Mich., April 2,
1913 (age 82 years, 360
days).
Interment at Riverside Cemetery.
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