Sharon Township Civil War Memorial
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member GT.US
N 42° 11.468 W 084° 04.300
16T E 741800 N 4675149
This civil war memorial is located at the edge of the Sharon Center Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WM4QKF
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 09/20/2008
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member Sprinterman
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The memorial is just outside the logical boundaries of the cemetery, but there is no fence. Michigan law limits cemetery visits to Sunup to Sundown.

This memorial is also inventoried on the Washtenaw County Genealogocial Society website at
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The marker next to it reads:
This marker serves as an everlasting tribute to the memory of our martyred president Abraham Lincoln (assasinated April fifteenth 1865) and also the 24 Sharon township men who died in the war for the protection of our union, this marble monument was erected in the eighteen seventy at a cost of 1,500$ and was paid by subscription. The designer and builder was Eisele of Ann Arbor, Michigan.


Date Installed or Dedicated: 01/01/1870

Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Subscription by local residents

Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Union

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