Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 05:16:45 MDT
Ross Collection - Cornish To Michigan Logo 

Dick and June Ross went to various cemeteries in Houghton County and transcribed all stones that contained a Cornish or English surname.  This is a database of the collection for the county and contains the following cemeteries transcriptions.

Mount Calvary Cemetery  -  Database ID code is MtC
Place: West of Lake Linden
Founded: 1876
Forest Hill Cemetery - Database ID code is FH
Place: Off US-41 at Michigan Tech University - Houghton
Founded: 1862
Lakeview Cemetery - Database ID code is LK
Place: 2 miles West of Calumet on M-203
Founded: 1894
Maple Hill Cemetery - Database ID code is MH
Place: West of Lake Linden
(note: Map shows north of Lake Linden by Mount Calvary Cemetery)Founded: 1880

Schoolcraft or Centennial Cemetery - Database ID code is SCH

Place: Between Laurium and Calumet or
1 mile north of Calumet on US-41
Founded: 1865
 Liminga Cemetery or Redridge Cemetery - Database ID code is Lim

Place: 1-1/2 miles east of Redridge
Founded: 1912

There are 1117 records contained in the database of the above cemeteries only.  They have been put into a searchable database so you don't have to go through numerous web pages to find the names. 

SEARCH CEMETERY DATABASE

 

BACK TO THE ROSS COLLECTION

Also check the cemetery transcriptions at the link below for more Cornish names.


HOUGHTON COUNTY LINKS

Index | Archives | Bibliography | Bios | Cemeteries | Lookups | Obits | Queries | BPDW Boards

Web Page Author: Copyright © 1998 - 2001. All rights reserved.