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Smallpox Cemetery

Also known as Indian Cemetery

Georgetown Township, Ottawa County, Michigan, USA

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Get directions Vos and 10th Avenue
Georgetown Township, Michigan 49428 United States

Coordinates: 42.89945, -85.80631
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It is believed that this cemetery was begun due to smallpox deaths in the 1870's. The Smallpox Cemetery was located on Van Sloten family land.

The property was sold in 1943. A gravestone was found in 1964 on the property near Vos Street and 10th Avenue. Bones reportedly had been unearthed during the paving of 10th Avenue and names of known smallpox victims were later traced to the burial site.

In 1984 Anna Van Sloten Brinks campaigned to save the cemetery from development when sewer and water lines were installed.. The cemetery was referred to as the Smallpox cemetery and the Indian cemetery.

In 1994 Virginia Timmer approached the township to preserve the site. The developer agrees to leave an area of the cemetery untouched and a 30-square-foot piece of property was deeded to the Jenison Historical Society and they had the waste and debris removed.

A marker was purchased listing the known names of those buried there. In 2006, the stone was moved to the Tiffany House museum and an explanatory marker placed at the cemetery.

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