Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, MI [HD] 23 min
Woodlawn Cemetery
19975 Woodward Avenue
South of 8 Mile on West side of Woodward
Detroit, MI 48203
(313) 368-0010
Since its founding in 1895, Woodland Cemetery attracted some of the most prominent and notable individuals in the city of Detroit. The cemetery is also home to one of the largest collections of private mausoleums in the country (150 private estates). The cemetery is large; 140 acres with 71,000 interments.
The Mother of the Modern Civil Rights Movement”, Rosa Parks is interred in Woodlawn’s beautiful mausoleum.
This is Ronald Winans (1956–2005), gospel singer and member of the gospel group the Winans family.
“The King of Pop”, Michael Jackson has a commemorative cenotaph in the cemetery.
Levi Stubbs (1936–2008) - Lead singer of Motown's Four Tops.
The Dodge (auto magnate) family mausoleum was built in a Neo-Egyptian style in 1915 by the Lloyd Brothers Company of Toledo, OH. The Dodge brothers opened a machine shop in 1901 that build motors and steering gear for early Ford cars. Eventually, the owned 20% of Ford Motor stock, which they sold to finance their own car company.
Edsel (Ford Motor Company president for 24 years and son of Henry Ford) and Eleanor Ford are in the cemetery, along with Benson Ford, the second son of Edsel Ford and brother of Henry Ford II and William Clay Ford, Sr.
Soul singer Aretha Franklin’s father and minister (Clarence), her sister and singer Carolyn, older brother and minister Cecil, and older sister and singer Erma are buried at the cemetery.
This is Don Barden, well-known Detroit businessman, casino executive (first black casino owner in Vegas), cable entrepreneur, to name a few.
Other music artists buried at Woodlawn include: David Ruffin (1941–1991) - Lead singer of The Temptations and Renaldo Obie Benson (1937–2005) - Member of Motown's Four Tops.
Billy Henderson (1939–2007) - Lead singer of The Spinners and Ronald White (1938–1995) - Member of Motown's The Miracles.
Lawrence Payton (1938–1997) - Member of Motown's Four Tops and DeShaun Dupree Proof Holton (1973–2006) - Rap musician.
Edward Patten (1939–2005) - Member of Gladys Knight & The Pips and Barbara Randolph (1942–2002) - Motown/R&B singer.
Dee Edwards (1945–2006) - Soul singer and James Jamerson (1938–1983) - Motown bass guitarist.
Marv Johnson (1938–1993) - Motown/R&B singer and Lewis Albert Martin (1923–2005) - Jazz musician.
Living legends Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross both have sites reserved at Woodlawn.
Roy D. Chapin (1880–1936) - Industrialist, automaker and US Secretary of Commerce and Albert Cobo (1893–1957) - Mayor of Detroit are in the cemetery.
Susie Garrett (1929–2002) - Actress, star of Punky Brewster and sister of actress Marla Gibbs and playwright Albert Hatton Gilmer (1878–1950) are buried in Woodlawn as well.
This is the mausoleum for James J. Couzens (1872–1936)- US Senator and Mayor of Detroit. he was also an early investor in Ford Motor - his shared later purchased back for $30 million.
Alex Groesbeck (1873–1953) - Michigan Governor and Attorney General and George M. Holley Sr. - Automotive engineer, designer and founder of Holley Carburetor are buried at Woodlawn.
George W. Trendle (1884–1972) - Creator of The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet and Joseph L. Hudson (1846–1912) - department store magnate are also burred at Woodlawn.
Edgar Guest (1881–1959) - Writer and Poet Laureate of Michigan.
Clayton Grinnell – founder family of the giant music store Grimmell Brothers (world’s largest piano factory and world’s largest piano distributor by the mid-1950s).
Frank J. Hecker (1846–1927) - Railroad car manufacturer and business partner of art collector Charles Lang Freer.
Julanne Johnston (1900-1988) - Silent Film actress.
Ed Killian (1876–1928) - Major League Baseball pitcher.
Alfred Lucking (1856–1929) – Congressman.
Blair Moody (1902–1954) - US Senator and newspaper reporter.
Elijah E. Myers (1832–1909) - Architect of the Colorado, Michigan and Texas State Capitols.
Hazen Pingree (1840–1901) - Detroit Mayor and Michigan Governor.
George Martin Shrake (1899–1991) - Singer, bandleader and radio personality (stage name: George Ray).
Carl M. Weideman (1898–1972) – Congressman.
Richard Storrs Willis (1819–1900) - Composer of It Came Upon a Midnight Clear and other hymns.
Earl Wilson (1934–2005) - Major League baseball pitcher.
C.J. Whitney – owner of the Detroit Opera House
Charles Van Dusen – president of the S.S Kresge Company from 1925 to 1938 and major fund raiser for Detroit’s Masonic Temple.
Matilda Dodge Wilson - (1883–1967) Widow of John Dodge and Alfred Wilson, benefactor of Michigan State University
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Woodlawn Cemetery is a cemetery located at 19975 Woodward Avenue, opposite the Michigan State Fairgrounds, between 7 Mile Road and 8 Mile Road, in Detroit, Michigan. The cemetery was established in 1895 and immediately attracted some of the most notable names in the city. The grounds encompass 140 acres (57 ha) and were planned by civil engineer Mason L. Brown and horticulturalist Frank Eurich. At the time of the first burial in 1896, Woodlawn was outside the city limits. Eurich also developed Woodlawn Cemetery in Toledo.
Motown Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960. Its name, a portmanteau of motor and town, has become a nickname for Detroit, where the label was originally headquartered.
FAMOUS GRAVES TOUR WOODLAWN CEMETERY - ROSA PARKS, ARETHA FRANKLIN, DODGE, TEMPTATIONS, AND MORE
Fans line streets as Aretha Franklin's funeral cortege heads through Detroit, interment
(1 Sep 2018) CASKET OF THE QUEEN OF SOUL INTERRED
The casket of the Queen of Soul was interred on Friday evening in a mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit, just over two weeks after she died of pancreatic cancer at age 76.
Aretha Franklin's loved ones arrived at the cemetery after a 10-mile processional through her hometown from Greater Grace Temple, where an eight-hour service of songs, sermons and speeches was held earlier in the day.
Woodlawn is also home to the graves of Franklin's father, two more of his daughters, and civil rights luminary Rosa Parks.
The interment ends the formal mourning for Franklin, who was dressed in four different outfits for open-casket viewings in the days leading up to the funeral.
She was buried in a gold dress and sparkling pumps.
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Elmwood Cemetery Detroit
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Preserve the Woodlawn Cemetery & Caretaker's Home
WBOY Channel 12 news story about efforts to Preserve the Woodlawn Cemetery & Caretaker's Home in Fairmont, WV.
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Rosa Parks Grave|Rosa Parks Bus Montgomery |Famous Gravesite Detroit|Henry Ford Museum
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In this video I visit the gravesite of the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement “ Rosa Parks, at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan. I also visit the Henry Ford Museum where the famous bus from Montgomery, Alabama is on display.
Rosa Parks, née Rosa Louise McCauley, (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.—died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan), African American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus to a white man precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which is recognized as the spark that ignited the U.S. civil rights movement.
The Henry Ford (also known as the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation and Greenfield Village, and as the Edison Institute) is a large indoor and outdoor history museum complex and a National Historic Landmark in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan, United States. The museum collection contains the presidential limousine of John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln's chair from Ford's Theatre, Thomas Edison's laboratory, the Wright Brothers' bicycle shop, the Rosa Parks bus, and many more historical exhibits. It is the largest indoor-outdoor museum complex in the United States and is visited by over 1.7 million people each year.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969 as Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1981 as Edison Institute.[
HOLY SEPULCHRE CEMETERY - MIKE ILITCH'S GRAVE
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American Legion Post-70 Wreaths Across America At Elmwood Cemetery...Detroit, Michigan
American Legion Post-70 Wreath Across America Ceremony...At The Historic Elmwood Cemetery In Detroit, Michigan
Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit is one of Michigan's most important historic cemeteries, Located at 1200 Elmwood Avenue in Detroit's Eastside Historic Cemetery District. Elmwood is the oldest continuously operating non-denominational cemetery in Michigan...
The cemetery was dedicated October 8, 1846 as a rural cemetery and incorporated as a non-profit corporation by Special Act 62 of the Michigan Lesislature on March 5, 1849. The first burial occurred three weeks prior to the dedication on September 10, 1846. Founded by some of early Detroit's leading residents, and is the final resting place of many notable Detroiters as well as ordinary citizens...
Elmwood was the first fully integrated cemeteries in the Midwest and continues to serve residents of all ethic backgrounds and religious beliefs. The park-like grounds containing a gently flowing stream and low hills were designed in 1890 by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted...
In 1874, The state of Michigan purchased a section to honor Civil War Veterans and in 1876, the Firemen's Lot was dedicated with a monument that depicts firefighting equipment and the fire hall that once stood at the corner of the present Renaissance Center on Randolph and Jefferson Avenue...
1200 Elmwood Avenue
Detroit, Michigan 48207
Phone:1 (313) 567-3453
Fax Phone:1 (313) 567-8861
Office Hours:
9AM - 4PM (Weekdays)
9AM - 12Noon (Saturdays)
Cemetery Grounds Access:
October 1 - April 30
8:30AM - 4PM (Daily) — at Elmwood Cemetery.
Fans line streets as Aretha Franklin's funeral cortege heads through Detroit, interment
(1 Sep 2018) STORYLINE:
The casket of the Queen of Soul was interred on Friday evening in a mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit, just over two weeks after she died of pancreatic cancer at age 76.
Aretha Franklin's loved ones arrived at the cemetery after a 10-mile processional through her hometown from Greater Grace Temple, where an eight-hour service of songs, sermons and speeches was held earlier in the day.
Woodlawn is also home to the graves of Franklin's father, two more of his daughters, and civil rights luminary Rosa Parks.
The interment ends the formal mourning for Franklin, who was dressed in four different outfits for open-casket viewings in the days leading up to the funeral.
She was buried in a gold dress and sparkling pumps.
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(On Location) Haunted Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Wyandotte, MI
This old cemetery in Wyandotte, MI dates back to 1864.
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Butler/William Ganong Cemetery, Westland, MI[HD]
Butler/William Ganong Cemetery
3036 Henry Ruff Road
Westland, MI
June 28, 2014
The Butler/William Ganong Cemetery is perhaps one of the most written about cemeteries in the state of Michigan because of the countless claims it is haunted with active paranormal encounters. The most common claim is the sighting of a literally traffic stopping blonde beauty in white who appears in the road in front of travelers, causing cars to swerve to avoid hitting her.
This historic graveyard was thrust into notoriety in 1980 when a well-known area psychic, the late Marion Kuclo, paid the cemetery a visit. While walking in the cemetery Kuclo, also know by her Wicca name of Gundella, thought she saw a blonde wig laying on the ground. In fact, it turned out to be a woman's scalp. As she got closer, she also saw a bone sticking up through the earth and, nearby, pieces of an old coffin neatly stacked in a pile as well as bits of what may have been a white satin dress. The authorities thought a heavy rain must have washed the casket up or it was dug up by animals. Not long after Gundella's visit and discovery, a driver was killed when he veered off the road just outside the cemetery, on what is now called the Bad Curve. Paranormal investigators still report hearing screams in the cemetery at night. The cemetery is also said to be the site of ritualistic activity as said to be reported by the Detroit News in 2000 after a kettle with bones, feathers and charms was found as well as pentagrams painted on tombstones.
The cemetery was donated by a local farmer in 1832 from a portion of his property to be used for burials. It is home to 350 deceased and is now closed to new burials. Among those buried are 25 of the Ganong family, several World War I and II veterans, one veteran of the Mexican-American War and numerous Freemasons. Albert Ganong, who perished in Libby Prison at age 17 is among the veterans buried there. The cemetery is now owned by Wayne County.
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Aretha Franklin's body being placed in a (MASOLEUM) | A FINAL GOODBYE
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via YouTube Capture We begin a new series and exploration stops at old and rural cemeteries in the state. When we see a tombstone that has a story to tell we are going to listen...Today we we stop at a centennial cemetery in Sterling Michigan N. of Standish....we were surprised at it's size and history.....We pull through the gates and find a classic tombstone ready to tell it's story....listen....and stay tuned
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Detroit City Indian Cemetery... Detroit MI
Detroit City Indian Cemetery Established On August 27, 1880 And Native American Indians Memorial Landmark Marker Placed By Michigan Society Daughters Of The American Revolution In 1976...
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The result is that today there is a population of people of Native American heritage and identity (particularly in the Northeast) who are not recognized by society at large, sharing similar circumstances with the Freedmen of the Cherokee and other Five Civilized Tribes as documented on the Dawes Roll cards by the United States Dawes Roll Administration.