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Woodlawn Cemetery (Detroit)

Woodlawn Cemetery is a cemetery located at 19975 Woodward Avenue, opposite the former Michigan State Fairgrounds, between 7 Mile Road and 8 Mile Road, in Detroit, Michigan.

Woodlawn Cemetery

1895 (1895)

19975 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan

140 acres (57 ha)

History[edit]

The cemetery was established in 1895 and immediately attracted some of the most notable names in the city.[1] The grounds encompass 140 acres (57 ha) and were planned by civil engineer Mason L. Brown and horticulturalist Frank Eurich. At the time of the first burial in 1896, Woodlawn was outside the city limits. Eurich also developed Woodlawn Cemetery in Toledo.[2]

Waldo Avery (1858–1914) – founder of United States Gypsum

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Bella Marshall Barden (1950–2012) – wife of and Wayne County Chief Operating Officer

Don H. Barden

(1881-1959) – American Poet known as the People's poet

Edgar Albert Guest

Bishop John Seth Bailey (1896–1984) – First Assistant Presiding Bishop of the Church of God in Christ

(1943–2011) – Casino Gaming and Cable Television entrepreneur

Don H. Barden

(1937–2005) – Member of Motown's Four Tops

Renaldo "Obie" Benson

(1880–1936) – Industrialist, automaker and U.S. Secretary of Commerce[3]

Roy D. Chapin

(1893–1957) – Mayor of Detroit[4]

Albert Cobo

(1877–1956) – Congressman[5]

Howard A. Coffin

(1851–1929) – Attorney, Congressman and father-in-law of George M. Holley

John Blaisdell Corliss

(1872–1936 ) – U.S. Senator and Mayor of Detroit[6]

James J. Couzens

(1935–1967) – U.S. Coast Guardsman and recipient of the Coast Guard Medal

Edgar Culbertson

Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, Cemetery Sculpture in America, unpublished manuscript

Nawrocki, Dennis Alan and Thomas J. Holleman, Art in Detroit Public Places, , Detroit, Michigan, 1980

Wayne State University Press

Northup, A. Dale, Detroit's Woodlawn Cemetery, , 2003

Arcadia Publishing

The Political Graveyard – Politicians buried in Woodlawn Cemetery

at Find A Grave

Woodlawn Cemetery

Woodlawn Cemetery website

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