Veterans' Day: The Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit MI

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The Gatehouse of Elmwood Cemetery. Established in 1846, the Historic Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit MI is the final resting place for many of the famous people and war veterans of Detroit and the State of Michigan. To read more of the fascinating information about the Historic Elmwood Cemetery, click here.

 

 The Civil War Memorial at Elmwood Cemetery honors those from Michigan who gave their lives during "The War of the Rebellion". This area is one of the few in the United States where the flag is flown day and night to honor fallen soldiers and sailors. This is also the area where the remains of the "Michigan Colored Infantry" are interred; one of the very first places where whites and blacks were buried in the same cemetery in the 1800s.

 

 The Joy family of Detroit is interned here. Founders of the Packard Motor Company, the United Foundation, and financiers of the Newberry Theatre and Gardens, "Joy Road" in Detroit is named for them.

 

Six generations of the Lewis Cass family are here. Lewis Cass was Michigan Territorial Governor, U.S. Senator, Secretary of State, Minister to France. His namesake is my alma mater, Cass Technical High School in Detroit. Also Cass Park, the Cass Corridor, Cass Avenue, etc.

 

 Martha Jean ("The Queen") Steinburg was a legendary Detroit radio personality and believed to be the first African-American woman to own a radio station. She holds many honors, including being inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame.

 

Coleman Alexander Young was the longest-serving mayor in Detroit history. He was also a WWII veteran, a member of the famous Tuskegee Airmen, a Michigan State Senator, and an awardee of the Springarn Medal, the highest honor of the NAACP.

 

 

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Monday Milestone: Historic Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit MI

The Gatehouse of Elmwood Cemetery. Established in 1846, the Historic Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit MI is the final resting place for many of the famous people and war veterans of Detroit and the State of Michigan. To read more of the fascinating information about the Historic Elmwood Cemetery, click here.

The Civil War Memorial at Elmwood Cemetery honors those from Michigan who gave their lives during "The War of the Rebellion". This area is one of the few in the United States where the flag is flown day and night to honor fallen soldiers and sailors.

The Joy family of Detroit is interned here. Founders of the Packard Motor Company, the United Foundation, and financiers of the Newberry Theatre and Gardens, "Joy Road" in Detroit is named for them.

Six generations of the Lewis Cass family are here. Lewis Cass was Michigan Territorial Governor, U.S. Senator, Secretary of State, Minister to France. His namesake is my alma mater, Cass Technical High School in Detroit. Also Cass Park, the Cass Corridor, Cass Avenue, etc.

Martha Jean ("The Queen") Steinburg was a legendary Detroit radio personality and believed to be the first African-American woman to own a radio station. She holds many honors, including being inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame.



Coleman Alexander Young was the longest-serving mayor in Detroit history. He was also a WWII veteran, a member of the famous Tuskegee Airmen, a Michigan State Senator, and an awardee of the Springarn Medal, the highest honor of the NAACP.

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Wordless Wednesday: Elmwood Cemetery Veteran's Day in Detroit

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Please be sure to honor all American Veterans today...

Many veterans from the City of Detroit and the State of Michigan,

including the Buffalo Soldiers from the Civil War, and Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young, are buried at Elmwood Cemetery

 

 

Monday Milestones: Elmwood Historic Cemetery

Today is Memorial Day 2009, a time to reflect on those whose lives, work, and sacrifice made it possible for us to enjoy this day in relative freedom and really relative prosperity.  The Elmwood Historic Cemetery on the eastside of Detroit is the oldest continuously operating non-denominational cemetery in the State of Michigan. Interestingly, the Elmwood Cemetery has always been racially integrated; the first fully integrated cemetery in the entire Midwest of the United States. There is also a special section at Elmwood for a Civil War Memorial. Elmwood Cemetery, which has grown in size from its original 42 acres to the present 86 acres, was designed by the famous 19th century architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, who also designed Central Park in New York City.

Famous Detroiters and Michiganders who rest at Elmwood Historic Cemetery include (notice how many "Detroit street names" you'll recognize):

• Russell A. Alger, Michigan governor, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of War
• John Biddle, delegate to U.S. Congress from Michigan Territory
• Henry Billings Brown, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• Lewis Cass, Michigan territorial governor
• Zachariah Chandler, U.S. Senator from Michigan
• Philip St. George Cooke, U.S. Civil War general
• Donald M. Dickinson, U.S. Postmaster General
• Elon Farnsworth, Attorney General and Chancellor of Michigan
• Douglass Houghton, geologist and mayor of Detroit
• Jonathan Kearsley, two-time mayor of Detroit and veteran of the War of 1812
• Charles Larned, attorney general of Michigan Territory and veteran of the War of 1812
• Lucius Lyon, U.S. statesman from Michigan
• Margaret Mather, Victorian actress
• Truman H. Newberry, businessman and U.S. Senator from Michigan
• John Norvell, U.S. Senator and newspaper editor
• Andrew Porter, American Civil War general in the Union Army
• Zina Pitcher, physician and two-time mayor of Detroit
• Solomon Sibley, delegate to U.S. Congress from Michigan Territory, Territorial Supreme Court justice, and first mayor of Detroit under the first charter
• Martha Jean Steinberg (1930-2000) Radio personality
• David Stuart politician, Congressman 1853-1855
• Eber Brock Ward Detroit’s first millionaire
• John R. Williams, first mayor of Detroit under the second charter
• Thomas R. Williams, American Civil War general killed at the Battle of Baton Rouge
• Coleman Young, mayor of Detroit

Make sure to take some time today to remember those who are no longer with us...especially those who gave the Greatest Sacrifice in the United States Armed Services...