PERE CHENEY CEMETERY
Pere Cheney Cemetery is located in Beaver Creek Township, Crawford County, Michigan. The 20 or so family
community of Pere Cheney originated in the early 1800’s, built on a main railway. Cholera was the cause of the towns
demise. Approximately 50 years later in 1877, the town was built again, on a much smaller scale. Again, cholera
swept through the town and it had to be razed again.
The following is from two books that the township has in its possession, the Sexton’s Receipt Journal and the Cemetery
Deed Book, and in some cases the information conflicts.
BLOCK A
DATE
SOLD:
LOT:
OWNER:
Lot 29 Lowell Fox
ADD’L INFO:
D.O.D:
BURIED:
Mrs. Lowell Fox
age 73, Epithalamia
William Francis Fox
age 2 months
Mrs. Timothy Webster
Ethel May Webster
Theodore Roosevelt Damoth age 9 Diphtheria
Mrs. Charles D. Vincent
5/25/1892
Lot 30 Timothy Webster
9/9/1921
12/18/1907
5/25/1892
10/30/1911
Lot 31 William Damoth
Lot 43 Charles D. Vincent
10/22/1911
8/1892
BLOCK B
11/12/1922
11/28/1920
2/12/1916
4/7/1917
12/5/1909
3/30/1912
4/4/1916
7/8/1919
10/16/1919
8/11/1906
Lot 19 William Golnick
Lot 23
Lot 30 Katherine Riff
11/12/1922
8/3/1924
4/30/1945
11/6/1921
Lot 31 Richrd F. James
Lot 32 George Frank Taylor
Lot 35 Charles Golnick & wife
5/27/1910
12/5/1908
Lot 36 William C. Johnson 7/30/1916
1/31/1913
Lot 37 Richard James
2/1916
Lot 38 Frank Taylor
4/6/1911?
Lot 38 Lynn Kile
5/23/1925
Lot 39 Christ Peterson
Lot 40 Charles Cook
10/1919
Lot 48
Lot 49 Lynn Kile
10/12/1915
5/23/1925
Lot 50 William Nichols
1/1913
4/3/1918
Lot 51 James H. Burton
3/30/1912
8/10/1906
12/20/1906
Baby Golnick, not named
Anney Mary Rogers
age 55
Mrs. Lewis Riffs body taken up and moved to Chicago
Lewis Riff
Martha Golnick
Charles Golnick
Emily Jane Philips
Salley A. Johnson
Richard Francis James
Ernest Taylor
Clara Bell Kile
Silas J. Cook
Mrs. Peterson
Cecial Wilson Kile
Clara Bell Kile
William Earl Nichols
William Elmer Nichols
Mr. William Johnson
Mercy Burton
James Burton
age 23 yrs, 2 mo, 7 days
age 80 minutes
age 77
age 69, old age/lungs
age 1 month, 16 days
age 1 ½ days
age 62, pneumonia
age 78/killed by train
age 17 days
pneumonia
age 2 hrs, weak heart
age 32 yrs, 7 mo, 7 days
age 73, congestion of bowels
age 72,
age 85, Yellow jantes
BLOCK C
DATE
SOLD:
4/4/1925
LOT:
OWNER:
D.O.D:
BURIED:
Lot 10 Seymour Sewell
Lot 17 Francis Johnson
Lot 23 Chancey L. Rogers
Lot 35
ADD’L INFO:
Blanch Sewell
Joseph Francis
Child’s grave, parents unknown
BLOCK D
DATE
SOLD:
LOT:
OWNER:
11/13/1889
7/14/1920
Lot 1 William Woodburn
Lot 3 Isley D. Sewell
Lot 5
2/6/1892
Lot 6 Ira J. Sewell
D.O.D:
7/10/1920
3/27/1893
3/27/1893
2/7/1894
7/6/1925
5/20/1912
11/13/1889
6/5/1916
5/21/1912
4/5/1890
11/7/1898
11/9/1909
11/7/1898
Lot 7
Lot 8
Lot 9
Lot 9
Lot 11
Lot 12
Lot 15
Lot 16
Lot 17
G.M. Davis
C. W. West
L.B. Merrill
Leman Sewell
John A.West
12/16/1901
Henry & Jesse Ashenfelter
Frank & Alice Kile 1/5/1908
5/25/1918
Lot 21
3/2/1919
2/2/1921
Lot 24 Ed Connelly & wife
BURIED:
ADD’L INFO:
Mrs. William Woodburn & son
Isley J. Sewell
age 18, drowned
Hattie Johnson
diphtheria
Choloe Johnson
diphtheria
Louisa Johnson
diphtheria
Eliza Sewell
Mrs. Ira Sewell
age 75
Ira Joseph Sewell
age 70, paralysis
Child’s grave, parents unknown
Son of G.M. Davis
Mrs. William Putman
Child of L.B. Merrill in lot vacated by C.W.West
Clara West
Son of E.R. & M. Schrader
Hy Ashenfelter & wife
George Arthur Kile
Alice Roberta Misenar
Frank Doumphie
Kathy N. Doumphie
age 1 yr, 11 months
age 5 weeks
age 79
age 79
BLOCK E
DATE
SOLD:
LOT:
10/2/1895
6/6/1916
Lot 1 William & Ida Vallad 4/18/1895
Lot 2 Frank Barber
12/16/1893
12/26/1893
12/30/1893
Lot 3 Charles Richardson 3/15/1892
3/4/1916
12/31/1939
Lot 8 Elmer Ostrander
Lot 9 Frank Deckro
Lot 9 Rufus W. Wilcox
9/2/1895
Lot 10 John & Bertha Skingley6/5/1916
1930
8/14/1936
Lot 32 William Wilcox
1893
1942
4/11/1892
10/2/1895
6/5/1916
OWNER:
D.O.D:
BURIED:
ADD’L INFO:
Margaret Matilda Vallad
Spinal fever
Adelia Barber
Diphtheria
Ray Barber
Diphtheria
Roy Barber
Diphtheria
Fay R. Richardson
age 15 days
Nina Richardson
age 55, heart
Charles Ira Richardson
age 71, heart
Lona Ostrander
Child of Frank Deckro
Child of R. W. Wilcox
William Alex Shingley
age 31, TB kidneys
John R. Skingley
stroke
Bertha Skingley
age 74, diabetes
Child of W. Wilcox, Baby Maudy
Mrs. G. Watkins
age 49 years
BLOCK F
DATE
SOLD:
LOT:
Lot 4
Lot 4
Lot 9
Lot 16
OWNER:
D.O.D:
1/16/1896
8/25/1904
10/11/1914
Lot 25
Lot 49
Lot 65
BURIED:
ADD’L INFO:
Donald Odell
William Wilson
born 12/28/1825
James B. Odell
age 78, 2 months, old age
A. M. Odell
Theodore Odell
age 47, gunshot wound
Child of D. L. Jacobs
Grave of man frozen to death
Father of wife of George Bonnell
BLOCK H
DATE
SOLD:
LOT:
OWNER:
D.O.D:
3/30/1897
10/30/1904
Lot 4 Charles D. ______________
Lot 9 James F. Odell
BURIED:
POTTERS FIELD
Lot 43
Lot 44
Lot 49
Lot 50
Unknown
Unknown
2 babies, parents unknown
Child’s grave
ADD’L INFO: