GREEN CEMETERY

Established 1861

Green Rd.
between Pleasant Valley Rd. and
Fremont Rd.
Lincoln Township
Section 19
Isabella County, Michigan

Section 1

Starting from the back of the cemetery. Markers are read from the left to the right facing west in each row. The notation, space, means that there is a space between the tombstones that is unaccounted for. There may be burials there but there is no headstone marking that burial. Additional information regarding birth and death records were copied from the official records of Isabella County.

Row 1

Thayer Headstone

No information on the marker.

Small stone next to Thayer Headstone

Father

George

March 11, 1834

Sept 14, 1901

No other headstones in this row.

Row 2

J. Franklin

BORN

April 28 18(?)37

DIED

March 20 1908

Z. Henry Caszatt

1809 – 1873

May the family circle be unbroken.

Dedicated by the 1996 Caszatt Family Reunion.

This is a new stone.

Large space with no headstones.

One stone with the name:

WINNIE

Hugh

1903-1993

Married

Dec. 25, 1926

Clarice

1907-1993

Large space with no headstones.

FATHER

George Westphal

1877-1935

Large space with no headstones.

Row 3

Small space with no headstones.

Elba Caszatt

DIED

April 23, 1885

74 years

Death record:

Elva (note the difference in the first name) Caszatt

White, Male, Single

Died of dropsy in Lincoln Township

Aged: 74 yrs. 9 m. 19 dys.

Parents: Francis Caszatt

Deborah Caszatt

Space with no headstones.

One stone with the name:

Curtiss

Fay D.

1884-1957

E. Mabel

1884-1965

Frank L.

Curtiss

1910-1968

Carl E.

Curtiss

1916

Very large space with no headstones.

Small stone

Gone Home

Relief of a small lamb.

MIRA E.

daughter of

& R. White

DIED

April 3, 1873

The rest of the stone is buried in the ground and unreadable.

Row 4

GAR Headstone

GEO. KEMMERER

CO. I.

47 OHIO INF.

Obelisk Monument

KEMMERER inscribed at the base

Elizabeth

BORN

Jan 23 1866 (?)

DIED

March 22 1888 (?83)

Josephine

BORN

June 30, 1881

DIED

Sept. 15, 1881

Death Record:

Josephine Kemmerer

Died: Sept 13, 1881

No cause noted

Aged:2 months 22 days

Mother: Elizabeth Kemmerer of Fremont Twp.

Father: Unknown

Birth Record:

Josephine Kemmerer

Born: June 7, 1881, Fremont Township

Parents: Father: George G. Kemmerer of Fremont Township, born Ohio

Mother: Elizabeth Kemmerer of Fremont Township, born Ohio

One stone with the name:

Van Alstine

Thomas H.

1857-1933

Catharine A.

1860-1947

There are no other stones in this row.

ROW 5

One stone with the name:

BARNES

Basil

1909-1977

Married

Aug. 16, 1934

Hazel M.

1917-

Large space without stones.

One stone with the name:

Bellinger

Fremont

1919 –

Aletha E.

1924 –

Cary Kent Bellinger

Sgt. USARMY

VIETNAM

Jan. 29 1950April 13, 1997

Silver StarPurple Heart

No other stones in the row.

Row 6

Small Stone

James S. (?)

ASHTON

BORN

Aug 18, 180(?) 0 or 9

DIED

June 1(?), 18?7

AGED

Unreadable

Per Gay Davis the above should read:

James C. Ashton

b 19 Aug 1809

d 12 Jun 1897

Reference family Bible.

Large space without any headstones

One stone with the name:

YOUNG

Father

Mark S.

1906-1987

Mother

Julia B.

1904-1964

Oscar C.

Davidson

1921 - 1978

Row 7

The first stone is in the middle of the row.

The headstone is large with inscriptions on all four sides.

Inscription facing west:

Mary E. Ford

BORN

Mary 5, 1837

DIED

Sept. 16, 1900

Inscription facing east:

Orrin E. Ford

Private

Co. B 1^st Michigan Reg.

DIED

Aug 29, 1866

Aged

34 years

Inscription facing south:

Henry Pease

DIED

Nov. 23, 1874

AGED

69 yrs. 11 m. 4 dys.

Inscription facing north:

Nancy

Wife of Henry Pease

DIED

April 11, 1885

AGED

72 yrs. the rest of the inscription is not readable.

Death Record:

Nancy Pease

Died: April 11, 1885 at Lincoln Twp.

Aged: 72 yrs. 8 m. 28 dys.

Born: New York

Parents: Unknown

Row 8

Small stone

ELLEN inscribed across the top

Giles

1810

1893

Large space without any headstones.

Ray R. Hetherington

1902-1983

One stone with the name:

Hetherington

Mary M.

1878 – 1937

Charles E.

1865 – 1944

One stone, no surname inscribed, place directly next to the Hetherington stone.

M. Winifred

1902 – 1978

Vern E.

1900 – 1988

Small space, about the size of one lot.

Theresa Lee Hetherington

Aug 18, 1957

Aug 9, 1978

Row 9

The row begins with a large space without any headstones.

Fanna

daughter of

P.A. & H.M.

Stanton

DIED

May 22 1865

AGED

1 yr. 7 m. 8 dys.

Another large space occurs after this burial.

At the far end of the row is a small stone.

Jane

Leonard

1827 – 1919

Row 10

A space the size of one plot occurs at the beginning of the row.

Name unreadable on the stone due to lichen overgrowth.

____ of

J.G. & G.E.

Brownridge

BORN

Feb. 7, 1903

DIED

Feb. 21, 1903

BABY

Large space.

This is a series of five stones next set next to one another.

MOTHER

1833-1920

Small stone that is unreadable. The face of the stone is completely flat and there

was no information obtainable from an attempted rubbing.

Obelisk Monument with Hetherington inscribed at the base.

FATHER

1822 – 1871

Another small stone that was unreadable.

Space the size of a plot.

Small stone that was unreadable.

Row 11

One stone with the name:

WILTSHIRE

James

1837 – 1883

Jimmie

1876 – 1880

Emily

1843 – 1897

Large space the approximate size of three plots.

A series of six stones that are weathered and nearly unreadable. The stones are small in size and beginning to sink into the ground.

August G. or Augustus on the top of the stone

Unreadable portion at the top of the stone.

April 19, 1879

Rectangular stone whose surface was flat.

Inscribed with TITUS at the base of the stone.

HALLEN (stone blurred, this is an interpretation)

Titus

Born 1873

Died 1879

Birth Record:

August 26, 1873

Hattie M. Titus

Female, White

Born: Lincoln Township

Parents: Samuel W. Titus of Lincoln Township, born New York

Mary Titus of Lincoln Township, born New York

ELLEN N

Titus

BORN

Oct. 26, 1868

DIED

Nov. 16, 1868

Death Record:

November 16, 1868

Ellen M. Titus

Female, White, Single

Aged: 21 days

Born: Lincoln Township

Cause of death: Inflammation of the brain

Parents: Samuel Titus

Margaret Titus

Birth Record:

October 26, 1868

Ellen M. Titus

Female, Legitimate

Born: Lincoln Township

Parents: Samuel William Titus of Lincoln Township, born New York

Maryette Titus of Lincoln Township, born New York

CYRUS R.

Titus

BORN

May 31, 1878

DIED

March 26, 1879

Birth Record:

May 31, 1878

Cyrus R. Titus

Male, White

Born: Lincoln Township

Parents:Samuel W. Titus of Lincoln Township, born New York

Maryette Titus of Lincoln Township, born New York

Space the size of one grave.

BABY

AGGIE

TITUS

April 1899

One stone with the name:

HARRIS

Albert T.

1859 – 1944

Eva Jane

1860 – 1941

Loving daughter, mother and friend

Eloise (Harris)

Smith

Jan. 18, 1926

March 3, 1992

Row 12

MOTHER inscribed on the top of the stone.

Lavina

BORN

Sept. 10, 1842

DIED

Sept. 12, 1876

Death Record:

Lovina (note the difference in the spelling) Deming

Died: Sept 3, 1876

Female, White, Married

Aged: 35 yrs. 5 m. 7 dys.

Cause of death: Typhoid Fever

Born: Ohio

Parents: James and Olivia Dodge of Lincoln Township

Marriage Record:

Lovina Dodge married William Davis Deming in 1867 in Isabella Co.

Monument stone with DEMING inscribed on the pedastal.

Large space with no headstones, approximately the size of three plots.

One large stone:

MOTHER

Ruth A. Stedman

1809 – 1868

Her daughter

Adelia

1846 – 1869

Death Record:

March 4, 1868

Ruth Ann Stedman

Female, White, Widow of Lincoln Township

Aged: 59 years

Born: New York

Parents: David and Ruth Ann King

Space the size of one plot.

Small stone inscribed on the face with

Lucille

1928 – 1936

This stone is directly next to one stone with the name:

HARRIS

Eber C.

1900 – 1972

Hazel M.

1901 – 1995

One stone with the name:

MARSHALL

Mabel E.

1900 – 1972

Bond B.

1899 – 1971

Row 13

At the beginning of the row there is a half stone that is unreadable.

Alfred

Varnum

1864 – 1948

Clayton

1893 – 1914

In a brighter home above

Rose O.

Varnum

1869 – 1923

Obelisk with the name DODGE at the base. The rest of the stone is

unreadable.

MOTHER

The face of the stone is unreadable.

Large space the size of two plots.

Gone Home

Harry A.

Son of

G.A. & G.M.

Richardson

DIED

Sept. 22, 1875

AGED

7 ms.

FATHER

Charles Albert

Richardson

1849 – 1930

At Rest

Large stone with the name RICHARDSON

MOTHER

Grace Mildred

Wife of

Chas. A. Richardson

BORN

Aug. 8, 1830

DIED

March 16, 1904

Henrietta Green

1883 – 1931

John C. Green

1878 – 1939

Howard D. Green

1910 – 1970

Thelma Green

1916 – 1986