• Balcom Cemetery is located in Section 36, on North Tuttle Road, Ionia. This is a very large cemetery with 2094 transcribed burials. Burials are from the mid 1800’s to the present. This cemetery was last read in the late 1970’s.

• Letts Cemetery is located in Section 13, on Peck Lake Road, Ionia. There are 312 transcribed burials for this cemetery.

• Ionia County Infirmary is located in Section 34, on North Riverside Drive. The land is now part of the Ionia Recreation Area. This cemetery is no longer used. There is a large stone with a plaque on it that lists the names of those people buried there. There are 36 transcribed burials for this little cemetery..

• South Boston Cemetery is located in Section 20 on Grand River Avenue and Kyser Rd. in Saranac. Conversion from written record to computer database is in progress.

• White (Toles) Cemetery is located in Section 3 on Centerline Road in Saranac. There are 101 transcribed burials for this cemetery.

• Old Order (Brethern/South Clarksville/Dunkard/Campbell/German Baptist) Cemetery is located in Section 34 on Vedder Road in Freeport. There are 167 transcribed burials for this cemetery.
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• Oakhill Cemetery is located in Section 24 on Yeomans Street in Ionia. This cemetery is Ionia’s first cemetery. Many of Ionia County’s founders are buried here. Conversion of written record to computer database is in progress

• Mount Olivet Catholic (SS Peter and Paul) is located in Section 20 on E. Washington and 4th Streets in Ionia. A large cemetery with 1641 transcribed burials.

• Sunset Memorial Gardens is located in Section 31 on S. State Road/M-66 in Ionia. This cemetery is a new cemetery. The cemetery sextons are Howard and Luann Curtiss; 5800 E. Davison, Detroit, Michigan 48212

• Tuttle Cemetery is located in Section 32 on Kelsey and Tuttle Roads in Ionia. This cemetery has 899 transcribed burials.

• Pinkney (Pinckney) Cemetery is located in Section 28 on Sayles and Pinckney Roads in Lowell. There are 344 transcribed burials

• Mount Calvary (St. Joseph’s Catholic) Cemetery is located in Section 13 on Stoney Creek and Hubbardston Roads in Pewamo. There are 235 transcribed burials for this cemetery

• Muir Cemetery is located in Section 18 on Bluewater Highway in Muir. There are 914 transcribed burials

• Pewamo Cemetery is located in Section 14 on Pewamo Road in Pewamo. there are 153 transcribed burials

• Spaulding Cemetery is located in Section 25 on Dexter Trail in Pewamo

• North Plains Cemetery is located in Section 31 on Olmstead and Germain Roads in Hubbardston. Last transcribed in 1973. Conversion of transcriptions from written record to computer database format are in progress.

• Saint John the Baptist Catholic Cemetery is located in Section 11 on Bordon Road in Hubbardston. This large cemetery has 752 transcribed burials.

• West Side (Hubbardston West) Cemetery is located in Section 12 in Hubbardston. There are 469 transcribed burials.

• Woodward Cemetery is located in Section 15 on Borden Road in Hubbardston ( last burial in 1860) This cemetery is a tiny abandoned site. There are three known headstones.

• Matthew (South Orange) Cemetery is located in Section 34 on Sunfield Highway. There are 57 transcribed burials for this cemetery.

• Steel (Steele) Cemetery is located in Section 20 on Peck Lake and Kelsey Roads

• Green Cemetery is located in Section 17 on Johnson Road in Orleans (about 3 miles east of the city of Belding. Burials are listed from the mid-1800’s thru 1965. 443 burials have been transcribed.

• Higbee (Old Higbee) Cemetery is located in Section 36 on Peterson Road. Burials are from the early 1840’s. 141 burials have been transcribed

• Wheeler Cemetery is located in Orleans. There are 530 burials transcribed. The Wheeler Cemetery also has an annex for which there are 181 transcribed burials

• River Ridge Cemetery is located in Section 14 on Zahm Road in Belding

• River Ridge Mausoleum located in Belding. 122 interments are transcribed

• Smyrna Cemetery is located in Section 21 on Whites Bridge Road in Smyrna - 346 transcribed burials

• Belding Cemetery is located in Section 14 on E. Belding Road/M-44 in Belding

• Otisco Cemetery is located in Section 9 on Whites Bridge and Ellis Roads in Cooks Corners. 848 burials have been transcribed

• Rest Haven Memory Gardens is located in Section 4 on North Storey Highway/M-91 in Belding

• St. Joseph’s Cemetery is located in Section 14 on Zahm Road in Belding. The last reading was done in May of 1974 with 369 transcribed burials

• St. Mary’s Cemetery is located in Section 33 and 34 on Krupp Road in Smyrna. There are 373 transcribed burials

• Portland City Cemetery is located in Section 33 on Bridge Street in Portland. Conversion from written record to computer database is in progress at this time.

• Brown Grave is located in Section 9 on David Highway in Portland

• Catholic Cemetery is located in Section 28 in Portland. The site is now obliterated. Reinterred in Portland Cemetery in 1900

• Goodwin Cemetery is located in Section 2 on Maple Road in Portland. Some 50 to 100 graves were bulldozed about 1950. Some reburials in Portland Cemetery

• Union (Musser) Cemetery is located in Section 19 on Keefer Highway in Portland (last burial 1900)

• Woodard Lake Cemetery is located in Section 18 on Woodard Road in Palo. There are 186 burials transcribed.

• Ionia County Poor Farm is located in Section 33 on Cooper Road in Ionia

• Palo Cemetery is located in Section 2 on Judville Road in Palo. This cemetery is a very large cemetery with 1358 transcribed burials. It was last transcribed in 1961.

• Sebewa Baptist (West Sebewa) Cemetery is located in Section 30 on Musgrove Road in Lake Odessa. There are 525 transcribed burials for this cemetery.

• Ingalls Grave is located in Section 25 on Keefer Road in Sunfield. Jonothan Ingalls, soldier of the Revolutionary War, is buried in a single roadside grave. The grave is maintained by Sebewa Township. The marker is engraved: Jonathon Ingalls, Soldier of the Revolution 1762-1843. The marker was erected in 1921 by Stevens Thompson Mason Charter D.A.R.

• Reeder Cemetery is located in Section 32 on Tupper Lake and Kimmel Roads in Sunfield. Bodies were moved to the East Sebewa Cemetery. Site obliterated

• Showerman Graves are located in Section 21 (site contains the two graves of Lucius Showerman’s children)

• Treece Children Graves are located in Section 3

• Unknown Grave is located in Section 16

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• The Library of Michigan holds the following microfilm about the cemeteries and/or burials in Ionia County.

Index of persons buried in cemeteries in Ionia County, Michigan (1978)

............. Mich (Non-Circ) 2 N : F 572 .I6 D8 1978 Pt 1-3

Ionia County, Michigan, cemeteries. (1974)

............. Mich (Non-Circ) 2 N : F572.I6 I55 1974

Letts Cemetery records, Berlin Twp., Ionia County, Michigan. (198-?].)

............. Mich (Non-Circ) 2 N : F 574 .B45 L47z

The Letts Cemetery records, Ionia County, Michigan / copied (1968)

............. Mich (Non-Circ) 2 N : F574.B47 L48 1968

The Letts Cemetery records, Ionia County, Michigan [microfor (1968)

............. Microfilm 2 S : F574.B47 L48 1968a

The Letts Cemetery records, Berlin Township, Ionia County, M (199-?].)

............. Mich (Non-Circ) 2 N : F 574 .B45 L47 1990z

Ionia County, Michigan cemeteries [microform]. (1981)

............. Microfilm 2 S : F572.E2 E3 1979a

Michigan gravestone inscriptions from East Plains Cemetery, (1951)

............. Mich (Non-Circ) 2 N : F572.C7 M52

Michigan gravestone inscriptions from East Plains Cemetery, (1951)

............. Microfilm 2 S : F572.A3 A44 1968a

The Old Belding Cemetery, also called The Free Methodist Cemetery (1965)

............. Mich (Non-Circ) 2 N : F574.B432 D43 1965

Otisco Township Cemetery, Ionia County, Michigan.

............. Mich (Non-Circ) 2 N : F574.O82 O85 1970z

Palo Cemetery, Judeville Rd., Ronald Township, Ionia County, (1974)

............. Mich (Non-Circ) 2 N : F574.P34 P35 1974

Register of deaths, township of Ronald, county of Ionia [mic (1983)

............. Microfilm 2 S : F574.S844 R3 1983

Return of deaths recorded in the county of ... , [state of M (1868-1897])

............. Microfilm 2 S : F 565 .I53 1868 Reel 11. Ionia

Spaulding Cemetery, Ionia County, burial records [microform] (1983)

............. Microfilm 2 S : F574.S844 R3 1983

Transcript of certificate of death, County of Ionia, township of Lyons (1983)

............. Microfilm 2 S : F574.S844 R3 1983

Transcript of certificate of death, county of Ionia, township of Portland (1983)

............. Microfilm 2 S : F574.S844 R3 1983

Index of persons buried in cemeteries in Ionia County, Michigan / compiled by Betsi Dunn & Freda Forist.PublisherBelding, Mich. : B. Dunn & F. Forest, 1978.

Mich (Non-Circ) 2 N F 572 .I6 D8 1978 pt.1