EAST FORK
CEMETERY
FORK TOWNSHIP,
MECOSTA CO., MICHIGAN
Transcribed by
Addison Kemp
Section One
ROW
1 (Going North) ROW 2 (Going North)
1 ??Palmer?? 1 Our Baby
?? and relic of
the late M.E. & R..J.
Ben J.
Soule Rathburn
Died Born
Feb 12 1881 Oct 1 1820
Aged Died
75 ys 1 mo 1
day Feb 5 1820
2 John Arthur 2 Stone Marker
Son of No Name No Dates
J.H. & S.M.
Gibbs
Died 3 Jabcob Z.
Feb 19 1877 Butts
Aged 1838-1924
9 yrs 2 mo
4 Josephine A. Butts
3 Adel L. Born Nov 29 1844
Wife of Died Mar 27 1890
C.E. Kemp BUTTS
Dau of
J.H. & S.M.
Gibbs 5 Stone Marker
Died No Names No Dates
Oct 22 1880
Aged 1 Space
19 yrs 2 mos
6 Peter
4 Sarah M. Nellis
Wife of J.H.
Gibbs 1839-1876
1837-1901
7 Mamie I.
5 Sylvia
M. GAR Flag Nellis
1881 - 1953 1904-1905
6. Mother 8 E. Fern
1848-1924 Nellis
1908-1914
7 C.W. Bark
9 C. Henry
8. Father Nellis
1852-1938 1910-1963
10 Elvin G.
Nellis
1914-1932
11 Marguerite
Nellis
1900-1922
ROW
3 (Going North) ROW 4 (Going North)
3 Spaces 1 GROOMS
Aunt Uncle GAR Flag
1 HOFFMAN Nancy Jimmy
Fredrick L.
1906-1975 2 Spaces
Bertha L.
1912-1951 2 Nancy L. Kill
If We Never Meet
Again Sept 5-28 1945
Entire song 3 versus
1 chorus
1
Space
2 Nellie
Nellis 3 Base of Stone
1880-1970 ISANHART
3 Father 4 Peter
Charles .S.
Nellis Son of
1870-1940 S.P. & M.A.
3 Spaces Isanhart
4
BARK Died
James B. Abbie O. Mar 13
1905
1857-1944 1865-1956 Aged
2 yrs 8 mos
5 Frankie
Son of
S.P. & M.A.
Isanhart
Died
Aug 13 1888
Aged
??? mos 12 days
ROW
5 (Going North) ROW 6 (Going North)
1 James
Kennedy GAR Flag 1 Robert A.
CO E. Apr 4 1889
193 RD N.Y.
INF July 3 1893
2 STURGIS 2 Freddie E.
Floy E.
Alfred H. Dec 27 1893
1895-1977 1893-1988 Mar 25 1894
Huge Maple Tree 3 Ida L.
Sept 4 1895
3 WILLIAMS Aug 26 1896
Julina Henry
Sept 14 1864
Feb 13 1859 4 Pearl E.
June 26 1932
Feb 20 1933 July 23 1898
Aug 16 1898
1 Space
5 WINKWORTH
4 Baby
Elva L. Walrath 6 Father
1888-1888 George
Jan 1 1851
5 Mother Sept 16 1917
Louise M.
Walrath
1846-1904 7 Mother
Harriet J.
6 WALRATH Oct 6 1860
Dec 10 1912
7 Father
Henry Walrath
1852-1911 8 Neva Morey
Lemkau
8 Mary P Tanner 1906-1974
Gibbs
1897-1950 9 Clark W. Morey
1878-1880
10 Floyd L. Morey
WW I Flag
1904-1967
11 Vida Grace Morey
1889-1903
12 Mother
Sarah A. Morey
1848-1926
13 Father
James I. Morey
1845-1914
ROW
7 (Going North) ROW
8 (Going North)
2 Spaces 2 Spaces
1 GEASLER 1 BARK
Baby Father Mother Benjamin Lillian
Marvel J. Albert J. D. Pearl 1887-1963 1889-1980
1933-19333 1904-1984 1902-1981
3 Spaces 2 Large Stone Planter
2 Connie
Schuchaskie REX
carved into base of it.
1955-1975
3 Stone Base
3 DeWITT IVA
carved into it.
Lillie M. James F.
1878-1957 1873-1960 4 NELLIS
Louis F.
Mildred L.
4 John Anderson 1920- 1922-1987
1832-1890 1 Space
5 Mother
Born
March 22 1841
Died
May 23
1914
6 KEMP
Large Piller Stone
On North side is
Chas Kemp
1836-1896
7 Stone Marker
No Name No
Dates
ROW
9 (Going North) ROW
10 (Going North)
4 Spaces 3
Spaces
1 KIMBELL 1 Mother
Roy E. Lydia Lee Birdie Haney
1905-1988 1916- 1876-1901
2 KIMBELL 2 Father
Jesse S. Alice B. Henry Haney
1871-1945 1878-1979 1871-1943
3
WAITE 3 HANEY
C.E.
"Ted" Ada Belle
1898-1983 1900-1987 4 Mother
Lillie Bentley
4 WAITE Heckert
Daniel E. Emma F. 1898-1944
18501-1935 1862-1931
5 Father
George O. Bentley
1895-1937
6 Donald A. Waite
MICHIGAN
PFC 3705 AAF BASE UNIT
WORLD WAR II
Mar 20 1922 Sept
14 1951
7 WAITE
William D.
Bessie J.
1888-1966
1899-19-
8 Chamberlain
Dwight W.
Linnie C.
1857-1941
1872-1932
ROW
11 (Going North) ROW 12 (Going North) 3 Spaces 3 Spaces
1 WALTER 1 Our Daughter
Gladys V. Henry C. Bessie Dau of
1895-1987 1891-1959 I. & Iva Gibbs
Died
2 Kenneth Walter Dec 18 1898
1932-1933 Aged
11 mos 4 days
3 Gladys Luella
Hansen 2 Carl A. Gibbs
1927-1980 1904-1928
1 Space
3 GIBBS
4 James Ivone
Iva M.
Reinsmith 1876-1962
1881-1938
Died
Aug 28 1904 4 Under Large Pine Tree
Aged Small Stone
76 yrs 4 mo 15
ds Mabel
No Dates
5 CALLED HIGHER
REINSMITH 5 Large Pillar Stone
South side has
Mabel
Wife of
Ernest Tanner
Died
Feb 1 1899
Aged
21 ys 11 mos 13 dys
On West Side of Same Stone
Mabel
Dau of E.M. Tanner
Died
Sept 14 1899
Aged
7 mos 7 days
Base of Stone
TANNER
6 Baby
No Name No Date
7 Ernest
Feb 21 1866
May 5 1942
8 Elmer A. Tanner
1915-1979
ROW
13 (Going North) ROW
14 (Going North)
Under Large Maple Tree 3 Spaces
3
Spaces 1 Clarabell Gibbs
1 ESSENBERG April 2 1933
Edward W. Edith L. April 17 1933
1918- 1909-1987
2 Baby Gibbs
2 Orvil Mayses Mar 29 1935
June 21 1897
Aug 26 1897 3 Infant
Dau of C.E. & L.E.
3 Orvil Taylor Myers
Oct 29 1876
June
18 1898 4 GIBBS
Ivone (Pat) Wilma P.
4
Mother 1912-1989 1922-1982
Mary E. Moore
April
13 1876 5 George V.
May
30 1908 Son of H.C. & L.
Moore
5
Father Died
James R. Moore Oct 2 1903
Born Aged
Dec 12 1863 10 ys 11 mo 15 dys
Died
Mar
11 1931 6 Henry C. Moore
1855-1917
6 MOORE
7 MOORE
8 Mother
Lenora Moore
1851-1936
9 John O. Moore
VFW Flag
1881-1921 American Legion Flag
ROW
15 (Going North) ROW 16 (Going North)
3 Spaces 4 Spaces
1 La LONDE 1 Mother
Rachel Joseph Sarah A. Moore
1871-1943 1870-1911 1868-1931
2 Leon J. La
Londe 3 Spaces
SGT US
ARMY VET Flag
WORLD WAR I 2 Douglas L Ranshaw
1875-1982 1950-1969
Madline E. La
Londe
1895-1987
1 Space
3 Edma P. Rilett
1885-1959
4
Father
George B.
Rilett
1878-1967
1 Space
5 Mother
M. Daisy
Rilett
1888-1922
ROW
17 (Going North) ROW 18 (Going North)
2
Spaces 2 Spaces
1
Mother 1 Betty Louise
Linda
Little 1929-1931
1907-1985
1 Space 2 RANSHAW
Gerald A. Helen T.
2 Julia A.
Teed 1908-1979
1913-1943
1851-1941 2 Spaces
3 Howard C. Hilliker
3 Warren D.
Teed 1901-1939
1846-1929
4 Beatrice "Hilliker"
1
Space Van Syckle
1903-1981
4 Oscar E.
Moore
1881-1919 5 Charles MacWilliams
1913-1963
5 MOORE
ROW
19 (Going North) ROW 20
(Going North)
Directly behind white brick shed
1 Elizabeth
M.
McNEILLY 1 Byron H. Haney
1927-1929 1923-1931
2 Linda
McNeilly 2 HANEY
1950-1951 Lovina M. Henry
N.
4 mo 21
days 1914-
1901-1984
3 Baby
Daughter of 2 White brick buildings and many
empty rows
Walter &
Louise with 4 very large pine trees
Conley