Reves-Wilhelm Cemetery
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N 42° 17.277 W 083° 10.255
17T E 321018 N 4684029
On the SE side of Wall Street between Greenfield Road and Oakwood Boulevard. Plenty of roadside parking, but only on one side of the road.
Waymark Code: WMFD3
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 06/21/2006
Views: 42
In this small cemetery are buried members of a pioneer family that settled this land in the 1820s. Many descendants still live in this area. Here lies Peter Wilhelm, who in 1827 or 1829 acquired Private Claim 49, an old French ribbon farm whose origins dated back into the 1700s. This land was part of that farm. Here are buried Peter's faher, Nicholas, progenitor of the Wilhelm family in the United States; Peter's wife, Salome; their son Peter, Jr., and their granddaughter Adeline Reves. Others are buried here, but their names are now unknown. Since 1948 this site has been maintained by Melvindale as a historic site, possibly the oldest in the immediate vicinity of Detroit unchanged from its original use.
Historical Name: Peter Wilhelm
Parking nearby?: yes
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Registered Site #: Local Site #25
Historical Date: Not listed
Description: Not listed
website: Not listed
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