Arenac County Burials - Sterling Cemetery

Sterling Cemetery - Deep River Township - Overview

Aerial photo courtesy USGS and terraserver.microsoft.com

     From "Arenac County Michigan Cemetery Inscriptions", compiled in 1992 by Betty Brokoff Barringer, Carlie Welker Klumpp, Barbara Briggs Foster and JoEllyn Lawson Pedota.   Used with permission.   This copy contributed 2005 for use on this MIGenWeb site.

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 Directions:

Sterling Cemetery is located in Section 18 of Deep River Township.  To visit Sterling Cemetery:  Travel M-76 north westerly from the Village of Sterling to Melita Road.  Turn north on to Melita Road and travel a very short distance, the cemetery is nestled in a wooded area and is not visible from the road.  Do not miss the older graves which are on the hillside facing M-76.

 

Oldest Birth Date	1814
Oldest Death Date	1877
Civil War Veterans	13
Veterans	115

 

Cemetery Inscriptions Read by:

Betty Brokoff Barringer
Barbara Briggs Foster
Carlie Welker Klumpp
JoEllyn Lawson Pedota
Willow Slusser 

 

Abbreviations:

ae	age
Dau	Daughter
DOD	Date of Death
Ds	Days
es	Eastern Star
m	Mason
mos/mo	Month
o	Oddfellows
r	Rebecak
ss	Same stone
yr	year
????	unsure of information

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