Records, 1848-1981.

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Records, 1848-1981.

These concern the Cemetery's two supervising organizations and burials at the Cemetery.

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Cave Hill Cemetery.

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Cave Hill was a city cemetery for several years before being incorporated in 1848 by the state legislature as a rural, non-profit organization. Accordingly, many of the graves date from 1848, though earlier graves were removed from private family plots to Cave Hill from 1848 through 1900. One of these was General George Rogers Clark, who died and was buried on the Locust Grove plantation in 1818, but reinterred at Cave Hill in the 1860s. Since part of Cave Hill has been designated a...

Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1818

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Surveyor; noted Indian fighter in the American midwest in the latter half of the 18th century. From the description of Documents, 1778-1818. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 28287330 American Revolutionary Colonel in the Old Northwest. Clark first came to Detroit from Cleveland in 1817, and was followed by his parents in a commercial fisherman and deputy collector of customs in China, Mich. (from M.P.C., I, 501-507: Clark's "Recollections".) (blue ...