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/UGB.2ACI/1716.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Greetings: I did the St. Joseph Cemetery, Monroe listing in part for the GSMC in 1980. It was compiled from readable tombstones, numbering over 10,000. We estimate that there are probably a good 2,000+ unmarked burials there also. I redid this project (crazy me) a couple of years ago. Up over 12,000 or so. The first project info is available at Ellis branch, Monroe County Library System. The first & second are at the Archives of the Monroe County Historical Museum in Monroe. History: This cemetery is the 3rd in line used by the oldest church, St. Mary, Monroe. It was formerly known as St. Antoine (St. Anthony) of the River Raisin, Frenchtown. The first cemetery has unmarked graves, located 2.5 miles west of current Monroe. Church records remain. The second St. Antoine (St. Mary) remains as a small burial ground just south of St. Joseph's, Monroe, on North Monroe Street. Some tombstones remain. I was involved in a project 10 years ago to 'resurrect' tombstones we found buried there. Church records remain for this cemetery, though the burials ca. 1848-49 are gone. Please note: Without a tombstone, particular burials cannot be known, as a map of this 2nd cemetery does not exist. Even St. Joseph's map is a modern one, and notes lot owners, not individual burials. I have worked with St. Joseph's for years to help add to the lists of those buried there, but sometimes exact sites will not be known, but it sometimes is possible to figure the probable ce! metery by time-period, etc. Feel free to contact me with your questions. By the way, there are several St. Joseph cemeteries in Monroe county- St. Joseph, Monroe; St. Joseph, Erie (south Monroe county), St. Joseph, Ida (south-mid county), St. Joseph, Maybee (north-mid county).