Last spring my cemetery stomping friend Mary and I were checking and rechecking the Spiegel Cemetery of Blissfield Township, Lenawee County, Michigan.
Very little written history has been found about the Spiegel Cemetery. A study of the burial records themselves start to tell the story, the first burials happened in the early 1880's. Nothing was found at the Lenawee County Historical Society that helped us, so we turned to plat maps. Lenawee has plat maps for 1857, 1873, and 1893, however there is no indication on any of these plat maps that a cemetery existed at the physical location that we find it at today. Finally in the 1916 plat map we found an indication of the cemetery. Searches of old deeds at the Lenawee County Deeds office was also very frustrating. We still hope someday to find more history on this cemetery.
I took a number of photos the day Mary and I visited the cemetery. When I came home and looked at them, I realized there were a number lovely headstone crosses, here they are. I'd just bet there are quite a few more in the section that Mary walked.
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Ernst Retter
March 20 1901
Oct 12, 1903
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| August F. Riebe 1836 to 1916 AND Whilhelmine Riebe 1841 to 1917 |
This next cross I shared before, in my post of June 15th, 2010--Scavenger Hunt, Hunting Symbolism,
Friederike
Gattin von
Gattin von
Heinrich Retter
Geb 4 Mai 1822
Gest 27 Sept 1905
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| Lene Harrer see close up below |
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| Lene Harrer Frau Des Pastors 1886 - 1906 Jesus Lebt. Ev. John. 18?? |
*The Lenawee County Family Researchers published this cemetery in it's latest volume in the Burial Records of Lenawee, Blissfield Township.
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