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{{Short description|Cemetery in Wayne County, Michigan, US}}{{Infobox cemetery|name=Woodmere Cemetery|image=Entrance to Woodmere Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan.png|location=9400 W. Fort St., [[Springwells, Detroit|Springwells]], [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]]|coordinates={{coord|42|17|45.1|N|83|07|54.4|W|display=title|type:landmark}}|country=[[United States]]|established=July 8, 1867|caption=Entrance to Woodmere Cemetery (1891)|size_acre=250|findagraveid=2007|website=[https://www.woodmerecemetery.com Cemetery website]|embedded={{Infobox park|child=yes
| designer = [[Adolph Strauch]]
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'''Woodmere Cemetery''' is at West Fort Street and Woodmere Avenue in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], in the neighborhood of [[Springwells Village]] in what was originally the township of Springwells.<ref>{{cite book|last=Woodmere Cemetery Association|title=Rules and Regulations of Woodmere Cemetery Association|year=1888|location=Detroit, Michigan|page=5}}</ref> Woodmere Cemetery is operated by the Midwest Memorial Group.<ref>{{cite web |title=Midwest Memorial Group |url=http://midwestmemorialgroup.com/ |website=midwestmemorialgroup |access-date=January 25, 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
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== Notable sections ==
[[File:19th U.S. Infantry monument.jpg|thumb|right|19th U.S. Infantry monument at Woodmere cemetery]]The [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] section is at the cemetery's southern end, next to Dearborn Street. The army purchased this section which contains [[veteran]]s from the [[Civil War (United States)|Civil War]] as well as [[World War II]]. In 1896 the Civil War soldiers buried at [[Fort Wayne (Detroit)|Fort Wayne]] were moved to Woodmere as the cemetery there had fallen to decay and the records were in shambles.<ref>{{cite book| title=Detroit's Woodmere Cemetery| publisher=Arcadia Publishing| last=Hershenzon| first=Gail D.| year=2006| page=96| isbn=978-0738541204}}</ref> The [[flagpole]] in this section divides the [[Grand Army of the Republic]] section to the east from the U.S. Army section to the west.
[[Temple Beth El (Detroit, Michigan)|Temple Beth El]] purchased two sections at Woodmere, Section Beth El and part of the adjacent Section NF. Many of the [[mausoleum]]s in Section NF were vandalized in December 2012. The bronze doors were removed, leaving the mausoleums open to the elements. These doors were presumably sold for scrap.<ref>{{cite web| last=Schwartz| first=Robin| title=Scrappers target historic Detroit cemetery| url=http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/20297018/scrappers-target-historic-detroit-cemetary| work=Fox 2 News| accessdate=2 April 2013| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130424012151/http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/20297018/scrappers-target-historic-detroit-cemetary| archive-date=24 April 2013| url-status=dead}}</ref>
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Victims of the [[Ford Hunger March]] killed on March 7, 1932, are buried in the Ferndale section at the cemetery's north end abutting Vernor Highway. The victims are Joseph York, Joseph Bussell, Kalman Leny, and Joseph DeBascio. The [[United Auto Workers]] also placed a headstone on an empty space in the same row as the others for Curtis Williams, a marcher who died several months later due to unrelated causes. Williams was [[cremated]] at Woodmere, but his ashes were not interred there.<ref>{{cite book| title=Detroit's Woodmere Cemetery| publisher=Arcadia Publishing| last=Hershenzon| first=Gail D.| year=2006| page=63| isbn=978-0738541204}}</ref> A marker is located along the fence outside of the cemetery near these graves.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}
== Notable burials ==
* [[John J. Bagley]] (1832–1881), [[List of governors of Michigan|Michigan Governor]] (1873–1877)
* [[Charlie Bennett]] (1854–1927), [[Major League Baseball]] player
* [[David Dunbar
* [[Hamilton Carhartt]] (1857–1937), founder of [[Carhartt|Carhartt Inc.]]
* [[
* [[Conrad Ten Eyck]] (1782–1847), politician, member of the [[Michigan Senate]] starting in its inaugural session in 1835, and as a member of the [[Michigan House of Representatives]] in 1846
* [[Dexter M. Ferry]] (1833–1907), founder of [[D.M. Ferry & Co.|D. M. Ferry & Co.]]
* [[Dexter M. Ferry Jr.]] (1873–1959), politician
* [[Moses W. Field]] (1828–1889), member of the [[United States House of Representatives]], instrumental in organizing the Independent [[Greenback Party]]
* [[Levi T. Griffin]] (1837–1906), politician, member of the [[United States House of Representatives]]
* [[Ignaz Grossmann]] (1825–1897), [[Hungary|Hungarian]]-born [[rabbi]] who ministered in [[Moravia]], [[Croatia]], and America
* [[Lillian Hollister]] (1853–1911), temperance and church worker, Supreme Commander of the [[Ladies of the Maccabees]]
* [[Lynn Bogue Hunt]] (1878–1960), wildlife artist, and illustrator of magazines and books
* [[Gene Krapp]] (1887–1923), [[Major League Baseball]] [[pitcher]]
* [[Henry M. Leland]] (1843–1932), founder of [[Cadillac]] and [[Lincoln (automobile)|Lincoln]] luxury car brands
* [[Sophie Lyons]] (1848–1924), criminal, one of the country's most notorious female ''thieves, pickpockets, shoplifters, and [[Confidence trick|confidence women]]''
* [[
* [[Philetus Norris]] (1821–1885), founder of Norris, Michigan (now [[Hamtramck, Michigan|Hamtramck]]) and 2nd superintendent of [[Yellowstone National Park]]
* [[John Pridgeon Jr.]] (1852–1929), head of a marine transport company and [[mayor of Detroit]]
* [[Charles A. Roxborough]] (1888–1963), [[List of first African-American U.S. state legislators|first African-American man]] elected to the [[Michigan Senate]]
* [[James E. Scripps]] (1835–1906), founder of [[The Detroit News]]
* [[Ahmad Bakhsh Sindhi]] (1917–2000), Former [[Ministry of Law and Justice (India)|Law and Justice Minister]] in [[Rajasthan, India]]▼
* [[
* David Vartanian (1890–1966), RMS ''[[Titanic]]'' survivor
* [[James Vernor]] (1843–1927), inventor of [[Vernor's Ginger Ale]]
* [[David Whitney House|David Whitney]] (1830–1900), lumber baron
* [[Grace Whitney-Hoff]] (1862-1938),
▲* [[Ahmad Bakhsh Sindhi]] (1917–2000), Former [[Ministry of Law and Justice (India)|Law and Justice Minister]] in [[Rajasthan, India]]
* [[Joe Yeager]] (1875–1937), [[Major League Baseball]] [[infielder]] and [[pitcher]]
▲* Three [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission|British Commonwealth war graves]], of two [[Canadian Army]] soldiers of [[World War I]] and a [[Royal Canadian Air Force]] airman of [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite web| title=Detroit (Woodmere) Cemetery| url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/2073094/DETROIT%20(WOODMERE)%20CEMETERY| website=CWGC| accessdate=December 1, 2018}}</ref>
▲* Grace Whitney-Hoff (1862-1938), American philanthropist, founder of the Foyer International des Etudiantes in Paris.
==References==
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* {{Official|https://www.woodmerecemetery.com/}}
* {{Find a Grave cemetery}}
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Detroit]]
[[Category:Cemeteries in Michigan]]
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