Lenox Centere is an old place. I do believe that this is the oldest cemetery that I have visited at this time. I might be wrong but at least this place has the stone with the oldest date that I have found. I took the Boy and the Girl with me this fine Saturday and we made a 70 mile round trip and visited five cemeteries in the most northern area of Macomb county.
Since I found my G,G,Great-grandpa's stone I have been doing a lot of genealogical work. While the Furstenau name appears in our tree (briefly, and then only by marriage to some great aunt's sister) I did notice so I took this rock's picture.
The burial grounds was full of many stones that were run down. Many were no longer readable. I thought it sad that the memory of so many people who are significant to someone alive today will never again be remembered because their markers have fallen into disuse.
The stone below is the oldest that I have seen to date. The name is for Cathrina A. Ellis and she died on March 26, 1819 at just 20 years old. The United States of America's Independence Day is on July 4th., 1779. That makes her life (assuming that she lived her 20 years here) part of our nations earliest adopters and likely one of Michigan's earliest inhibitors. I'd very much like to learn about her story.
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