This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IGB.2ACI/183.2 Message Board Post: The poor farm as it was is closed for many years. It used to be a haven for the poor . If able they helped raise thier own food and there was an operating farm with anomals and crops. A self sufficient way to help the poor. As with most farm area today, encroachment /urban sprawl made the land to valuable and costly to farm as a business. It was converted to Macomb counties office needs and is the central office area for many ooperations in the county.Incl: Sheriff Dept. & jail. Courts, youth home, health dept., a hospitol for rehab. ,Martha T. Berry. This hasn't gotten to your question, but, the Macomb County Clerks office should hold the death cert. and possibly the Mt.Clemens library/geneology dept. http://www.macomb.lib.mi.us/mountclemens/ There is a lot to browse there with links to the clerks office. Good luck Phil