Maple Grove Cemetery in Elba, Michigan

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Get directions S. Elba Road at M-69
Elba, Michigan 48446 United States

Coordinates: 43.01223, -83.43948
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The warrant to form the cemetery corportion for The Maple Grove Cemetery was created March 15, 1856 in the Township of Elba, Michigan. The interested parties were Charles D. Wood, Silas Moon, John W. Rich (father of future state governor, John T. Rich) and John Hammond. The land was purchased from G. M. Slayton of Elba and from the State of Michigan for the purpose of the burial of the dead and no other. Maple Grove (Section 18,19) is located on the east side of S. Elba Road, just south of the M-69 freeway, the building of which almost took the road through the cemetery; and is just north of the newer Dawn Memorial Cemetery. There are no stones left, only a grove of trees, but there were twenty to forty early burials there. The story is that years ago a farmer had a threshing rig in a neighboring field which became mired in mud; and so he knocked down all the headstones in this cemetery and used them to get the rig back on the road. He left the stones lying in the mud. Please enter information about any burials known for this cemetery to help preserve it in memory. It should not be confused with a cemetery of the same name in North Branch, Lapeer County, Michigan.