GREEN CEMETERY

Established 1861

Green Rd.
between Pleasant Valley Rd. and
Fremont Rd.

Lincoln Township
Section 19
Isabella County, Michigan

Section 2

Section 2 is the middle of the three sections of the cemetery. The tombstone reading starts at the back of the cemetery and begins on the left, closest to section 3 reading across.Additional information provided by birth and death records are copied from the originals at the Isabella County Courthouse.

Row 1

Leland L. Jennings

1900 – 1954

Space the size of one grave.

One stone with the name:

BACOME

MOTHER

Helen Bacome

Campbell

1909 – 1994

FATHER

Leonard Lawrence

1909 – 1940

Fremont D. II

1918 – 1948

In Remembrance of things past.

Large stone with the name VARNUM inscribed on the pedestal.

Elizabeth A.

1866 – 1955

Fremont

1862 – unable to read due to tree branches overgrown on headstone.

One stone:

Percy E.

June 13, 1920

June 14, 1920

Harrison L.

May 14, 1929

One stone with the name:

FLANSBURG

Harrison

1888 – 1964

La Verne

1899 – 1984

One stone with the name:

GREEN

Forest S.

1904 – 1990

Vada M.

1907 –

Row 2

Space approximately the size of one plot.

ISAAC

1871 – 1943

Large stone with the name Bacome inscribed on the face.

LILLIE V.

1877 – 1927

Space of one grave.

One stone with the name:

HUNGERFORD

Uri F.

1892 – 1973

Rena E.

1897 – 1982

Edward J.

1915 – 1915

Space the size of one grave.

MOTHER

Jennie B.

1866 – 1919

Clarence A.

TEFFT

1864 – 1933

Large stone inscribed on the face with the name BLACK.

Russell E.

1906 – 1927

James C.

Aug. 22, 1872

Sept. 7, 1913

Row 3

One stone with the name:

LUCE

Sidney E.

1882 – 1964

Lovisa I.

1896 – 1988

Mildred

Van Atta

1923 – 1927

Space the size of one plot.

Robert J. Wood

Pvt. US ARMY

WWI

1898 – 1977

Violet I. Wood

1901 – 1995

Space the size of one plot.

One stone with the name:

HENRY

WIFE

Emily V.

1850 – 1912

HUSBAND

Frank J.

1860 – 1938

Space the size of a grave.

FATHER

Wilber G.

1868 – 1922

Laura F.

1884 – 1968

Large stone with the name BROUGHTON inscribed on it.

No other stones in this row.

Row 4

Space the size of one plot at the beginning of the row.

Large stone monument with PARKS inscribed at the base.

Small stone directly next to the Parks monument:

MOTHER

The rest of the stone is unreadable.

Space the size of one plot.

Large stone monument (obelisk style):

KNIGHT inscribed at the base

Asher

Knight

BORN: Jan. 18, 1828

DIED: May 3(?), 1900

Space of one grave.

George Asher

Varnum

1908-1909

Space of one grave.

One cement platform with two stones affixed.

Sadie V. Smith

1867 – 1943

Margaret Varnum

April 1, 1846

March 25, 1925

WILLIS

Large stone with no readable inscription

Small stone.

Hannah M. Willis

Dec. 25, 1844

Oct. 11, 1907

A faithful wife and a good mother.

Space of one plot.

Large pine tree with four stones, two on either side of the tree.

FATHER

Archie

Myers

1868 – 1920

James A. Myers

1907 – 1908

MOTHER

Florence S.

Myers

1873 – 1908

Buddy Myers

1899 – 1910

Row 5

Space the size of one plot.

MOTHER

Josephine

Baum

1836 – 1909

At rest.

One stone with the name:

SMITH

Cora M.

1871 – 1944

Marcus A.

1861 – 1941

SMITH

The rest of this stone is unreadable.

There is a smaller stone next to the SMITH stone that is also unreadable.

Space the size of one plot.

One stone with the name:

BUSH

David S.

1858 – 1928

Margaret A.

1861 – 1941

Hattie

July 23, 1886

Aug. 29, 1891

MOTHER

Bernice Jennings

1901 – 1939

One stone with the name:

BUSH

Dercie M.

1881 – 1934

Homer W.

1880 – 1961

Space the size of one plot.

VERNYA inscribed on the top of the stone.

The face of the stone is unreadable.

Large stone.

Jennetta A.

Wife of

Edgaar A. Benchley

BORN Oct. 10, 1832

DIED May 30, 1894

Grand Army of the Republic stone.

E. A. Benchley

Co. F. 189^th New York Inf.

Small stone that is unreadable.

Row 6

Elmer R. Tefft

1886 – 1954

One stone with the name:

Tefft

Earnest A.

1888 – 1967

Lula M.

1888 – 1965

Hazel Tefft

Feb. 10, 1912

Baby

Tefft

Dec. 15, 1910

Space the size of one grave.

One stone with the name:

BLACK

Agnes P.

1852 – 1935

David W.

1838 – 1914

Older stone with the inscription:

David Black

Sept. 25, 1838

March 6, 1914

Space the size of one grave lot.

Large stone inscribed with the name:

BLACK

The face of the stone is unreadable.

John H.

June 20, 1867

Aug. 21, 1905

AGED

38 yrs 7 months 10 days

Space the size of one grave lot.

Frank M. Guthrie

1871 – 1937

Space the size of one grave lot.

Lorena Guthrie

(Deming)

1870 – 1946

Space the size of one grave lot.

Small stone sunk in the ground.

Large stone with the name:

SCOTT

No other information on the stone.

Row 7

Plot with a cement border. Two stones are within the border.

FATHER

Horace Hungerford

1854 – 1910

MOTHER

Mary Younger

1871 – 1928

Space of one plot.

Dick Flansburg

At rest.

1881 – 1921

Sarah Flansburg

1853 – 1922

At rest.

James Flansburg

1854 – 1934

At rest.

Space the size of one grave lot.

FATHER

John A. Johnson

1863 – 1956

Iva A. Johnson

Aug. 21, 1897

Aug. 26, 1907

MOTHER

Janet W. Johnson

1869 – 1917

Large stone with the name Johnson.

Treva R. Johnson

July 28, 1905

Sept. 30, 1905

Ada L. Johnson

June 25, 1891

Oct. 1, 1893

Space the size of one plot.

Lola M.

DIED Dec. 28, 1889

1 mo. 14 days

MOTHER

1837 – 1918

Large stone with the name F. VARNUM.

FATHER

1838 – 1926

Row 8

One stone with the name:

RICHARDSON

Maud

1875 – 1969

Star between the dates.

Ernest

1876 – 1950

Gleaners Symbol between the dates.

One stone with the name:

NOBLE

Silas O.

1845 – 1909

Adelia A.

1845 – 1939

Large space the size of two plots.

One stone with the name:

GUTHRIE

Melinda

1850 – 1915

John J.

1852 – 1931

Chas.

Kelley

1846 – 1915

Row 9

One stone with the name:

McGregor

FATHER

William H.

1854 – 1926

MOTHER

Ella E.

1860 – 1953

Volney D.

McGregor

July 6, 1887

April 19, 1900

Large space the size of three plots.

Small stone that is unreadable.

Large stone, obelisk style.

KEMPHER inscribed at the base.

Lucinda

Wife of

Jacob Kempher

DIED Jan. 31, 1894

AGED unreadable

Small stone

Lucinda

Kempher

1842 – 1894

MOTHER

Mary J.

March 13, 1853

April 20, 1908

Large stone with the name ANDERSON.

HUSBAND

Frank

Anderson

1855 – 1900

Space the size of one grave lot.

Rebecca

Utley

1835 – 1890

One large stone with the name:

Hapner

Son

Elton G.

1888 – 1944

Mother

Cornelia

1866 – 1961

Row 10

There is a space at the beginning of the row that is the size of a standard plot.

Small stone that is unreadable.

American Legion Auxiliary sign.

Large stone that is basically unreadable with the surname HOWE inscribed on it.

Small stone with FATHER inscribed on the top and HENRY on the face.

Small stone that is unreadable.

Small stone

Clara E.

Dec. 2, 1886

March 31, 1898

Large stone, obelisk style, the face of which is unreadable.

OATHOUT inscribed on the base.

Lee H. Oathout

Jan. 7, 1888

Nov. 11, 1960

Mina C.

Oathout

1898 – 1964

Space of one grave lot.

One stone with the name:

BRITTEN

Peter W.

1871 – 1963

Effie L.

1869 – 1923

Marcie

Daughter of

P.W. & E.L.

Britten

DIED Apr. 21, 1897

AGED 7 m & 17 days

One stone with the inscriptions FATHER and MOTHER. The rest of the stone is

unreadable.

Large stone with the name WHITNEY.

Row 11

One stone with the name:

WOOD

Stephen

1879 – 1951

Mildred l.

1885 – 1949

Corey Frank Wood

Baby

1911

Unreadable stone.

Space the size of one grave lot.

One stone with the name

SAMAIN

Myrtle

1873 – 1951

Fred

1853 – 1924

Space the size of one grave lot.

Walter Clyde

Copp

1883 – 19 –

George Fisher

Copp

1854 – 1928

Lucy Estella

Copp

1858 – 1891

Large stone with the name COPP.

Aurelia

Barnes

One stone with the name.

BARNES

FATHER

Scott

MOTHER

Aurelia

SON

Leo

Row 12

There is only one stone in this row.

Donna Louise Hetherington

1936

Row 13

One stone with the name

SCHROCK

Nellie M.

July 31, 1884

Jan. 12, 1983

Otis D.

July 16, 1880

May 9, 1956

Amy Helen

Oct. 31, 1918

July 14, 1934

Evart A.

Jan. 23, 1905

May 20, 1905

Infant Daughter

Nov. 13, 1903

Nov. 14, 1903

Space the size of one grave lot.

ABNER HUDSON

1803 – 1888

*Small stone, similar in construction to Abner Hudson’s stone, with only the

dates, 1818 – 1888 readable.

*According to Charles A. Zukowski this stone belongs to Isabell Hudson. Abner Hudson married Isabel Head in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada, where her family was from. Their son Andrew raised a family near Riverdale. Abner may have been from Boston, Mass.

Large space the size of two cemetery lots.

One stone with the name

McGregor

George J.

1859 – 1935

Ida Mae

1870 – 1942

Space the size of one cemetery lot.

One stone with the name

VAN ALSTINE

Alexander

1818 – 1896

Ross

1900

Died Amy

1824 – 1912

Unreadable small headstone.

Row 14

Emma Hapner

1894 – 1991

Large stone with the name HAPNER inscribed at the base. The rest of

the stone is unreadable.

Leslie M. Hapner

1874 – 1960

Nellie G. Hapner

1873 – 1901

MOTHER

BORN 1824

DIED 1901

The previous stone is next to a larger stone with the name McGregor on it.

FATHER

The rest of the stone is sunk in the ground.

Space the size of one lot.

Old small stone that is unreadable.

Large stone with the name

McKay

Anthony M.

DIED May 28, 1891

AGED 68 yrs. 6 m. 6 days

Louis(a) ?

Wife of

CRUMME - ---

Nov. 21, 1840

Sept. 17, 1906

Alonzo W.

Van Alstine

1845 – 1926

Madeline Whitney

Sister

1887 – 1938

Sarah E. Rogers

MOTHER

1850 – 1935

Mae Bessie

Hetherington

BORN Sept. 26, 1888

DIED Apr. 3, 1899

One large stone with inscriptions written on two faces of the stone.

Facing South

Willliam

Brownridge

BORN Aug. 26, 1825

DIED Sept. 30, 1890

65 yrs. 1 mo.

Sheltered and safe from sorrow.

Facing North

Eliza Jane

Brownridge

BORN April 11, 1856

DIED Oct. 13, 1900

AGED 44 yrs 6 mo. 2 dys.

Here I lay my burden down,

change the cross for the crown.

Row 15

Space the size of one plot.

One stone with the name

BOWERS

Willice

1873 – 1940

Ora O.

1879 – 1947

Beloved Mother

Reatha M. Oton

Mar. 12, 1901 Apr. 15, 1992

Small stone sunk in the ground with the name Samuel W. visible.

This may be the stone of Samuel W. Titus, a civil war veteran, who served as

a musician in the N.Y. Heavy Artillery.

Large stone with the name TITUS inscribe on the base of the stone.

FATHER

Joseph G. Titus

1881 – 1937

Very large space, the approximate size of three plots.

FATHER

The rest of the stone is unreadable.

Large monument, obelisk style, with the name HOLLINGSHEAD

inscribed at the base.

MOTHER

The rest of the stone is unreadable.

Space the size of one plot.

Large stone with the name FLOCK inscribed on the base.

Flora (?)

The top portion of the stone is unreadable.

DIED Oct. 17, 1885

AGED 14 yrs 5 m?? dys

Florance May

DIED April 2, 1886

AGED 13 yrs. 3 m. 16 dys.