Welcome
to The Van
Buren Co., Michigan
USGenWeb Project
Pine Grove School - 1890
Thanks to Andrew
Waber who Submitted the picture. He says his great grandfather Louis Arthur Waber is
in the front row, second from right. And he knows his brother Paul is in there somewhere
but dosen't know exactly where. Can anyone identify any of the others?
Van
Buren Co., MI GenWeb Project
In March and April, 1996, a group of genealogists organized the
Michigan Comprehensive Genealogy Database. The idea was to provide a single
entry point for all counties in Michigan, where collected databases would
be stored. In addition, the databases would be indexed and cross-linked,
so that even if an individual were found in more than one county, they
could be located in the index. At the same time, volunteers were
found who were willing to coordinate the collection of databases and generally
oversee the contents of the web page. My name is Joan
Jaco
and I'm responsible for Van Buren county. Please contact me
if you would like to contribute to this database. This page is now sponsored
by the Van
Buren Regional Genealogical Society We would
like to see this page grow and welcome any contributions of information
to add to our pages. If you would like to host a Michigan county,
please contactJan
Cortez. Please visit the MIGenWebpage
for a lot of good links. To learn more about the GenWeb Project
read this disclaimer
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Since the change of URL to rootsweb.ancestry
- can't seem to get the two below working - Atomz seems to be pretty complete.
You may post your Queries, Obits, Bible Records, Bios, Deeds, Pensions
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Buren Query board previously using the links below. Using the
above Search Engine (Free Find or RootsWeb) will also find any names
on the Van Buren query pages.
An Obituary Index containing over 89,000 obits from Southwest
Michigan
with instructions on how you may obtain them.
Also a marriage, anniversary,
engagement and divorce index of 1560 names Updated April 17, 2008
Obituary
Index An Index of Obituaries found on the Van Buren GenWeb site and The RootsWeb Message boards Updated April 26, 2008 Obituaries Obits that have been posted to this site Van
Buren Cemeteries Arlington
Hill Cemetery Vi Peterson is doing a walk through transcription
of graves of the cemetery I will continue to update as new graves are added
to the database Thank you Vi New
Cemetery Database Eleven Van Buren Cemeteries are now on-line Keeler
Cemetery Tombstone Photos - taken and submitted by Jim Smith Geneva
Township and Cemetery Pages Lacota, Chambers and Monks Cemeteries Thanks to Karen
Clinard and Norman Funk for
this site! Teresa has sent me a link to her Web Page with lots
of great Van Buren pictures of Schools, Cemeteries, Town Halls, Churches, etc. - Other Michigan pages
also Be sure and check out this great site! http://www.photographyprincess.com/html/van_buren_county.html
View Karen Clinard's Bangor Twp. cemeteries
(Southard, Van Auken, Thomas & Taylor) on www.findagrave.com. Van
Buren County Michigan Death
Index 1935 - 1945 Transcribed by Donna Goble of Tucson, Arizona Van
Buren County Births 1867-1871 Book A is now on line Van Buren Co., MI Marriages
A database of Marriages for Van Buren Co. that has been compiled by Jack and Marianne Dibean. Please contact them at
jackdibean@modempool.com if you have corrections, additions or
questions. I would like to Thank them for sharing this database with us.
Pictures sent to me by Steven Benton for identification These photos are from an album that belonged to his great grandmother, Luria Edick. Her parents were James
Salisbury and Marion Clark. James was born in Kalamazoo County and Marion
in Van Buren County. They were married in Mattawan in 1873 and resided
in Goblesville. Some time during the 1880s they moved to Muskegon County.
Pictures were probably taken in the 1880's. Gobles 1 Gobles 2 Gobles 3 Paw Paw Identified Identified as Benjamin Richard Clark and Julia
Etta Bliss Clark Please contact Steven at Benton@geoserv.isgs.uiuc.edu
if you can identify any of them
Diane Dublin has sent
me the following link, which includes letters written by John S. Malbone.
He was the original owner of the Malbone Hardware and Furniture Company
in South Haven, MI: Index
- Malbone Family Letters (1907 - 1938)
She also has contributed the following link, which highlights the
photography of Mr. David Cares Moyer. He was one of the proprietors of
the Moyer and Hopkins Photographic Studio, which was located at 319 Center
St., in South Haven, MI: D
C Moyer, Photographer
Below is a website address for a Letter by Jehiel Hull Baker to
Dan Fay's GGgrandmother Mollie B. Southwick/Fay. Jehiel's twin brother
was John Randolph Baker. John Baker was a lawyer/district attorney
in Lawrence and Paw Paw during ~1840's to 1873. He supposedly surveyed
Lawrence and at one time owned the property where the village square is
in Paw Paw. http://members.tripod.com/~deemamafred/jhbaker.html
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Publications and Services
Bangor Pictorial History Bob Emmert has put on a great
Web Page describing the Pictorial History Book titled, "Bangor: Our History
In Photographs" that Bangor is working on. There are some wonderful
old pictures of Bangor on the site along with information on the photos.
There are also requests for help finding some of these old photos and identification
on some of them. The site is http://www.bangormihistory.com/
“Reminiscing With Pearl Playford, Columns
From The Watervliet Record 1959-1966” A new book published by Rick Russell To learn more about this book, read pages from it,
or order it, go to: http://reminiscingbooks.com/
You may now obtain this book at no charge by having
it emailed to you - A Column-A-Day - See above URL
Joan
Jaco /Breedsville, Michigan /joanjaco@cybersol.com
