Hi Sue That would be great! That is one I really would like to find! Carolyn SCIGSC@aol.com wrote:Dear Fellow Researchers: Regarding a cemetery on Stroble Road. I helped a lady from Texas a few years ago get info regarding her PABST/PAPST ancestors buried there. I am sure that I can find the cemetery again. Susan Warner Saginaw, Michigan In a message dated 1/11/2003 4:49:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, carolinsaginaw@prodigy.net writes: > Subj: Re: [MISAGINA] McBratnie > Cemetery/STROEBEL,BECKER,BUSSINGER,PABST,BRIGGS,KAUFFMAN,BLOWER > Date: 1/11/2003 4:49:04 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: carolinsaginaw@prodigy.net > Reply-to: MISAGINA-L@rootsweb.com > To: MISAGINA-L@rootsweb.com > Hi Mary, > You told me about this cemetery before and I drove down Strobel Rd looking > for it. I didn't see anything that looked like a cemetery had been there. > I wonder if anyone else on the list would know? > Carolyn > mrichson@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 18:17:25 -0800 (PST) > Carolyn Obertein > wrote: > >Anyone know of any of those out of the way > >hidden cemeteries > Hi, Carolyn -- > I think I already mentioned this to you earlier, but there's a McBratnie > Cemetery in James Twp. I suspect that this cemetery may have some > connection > with my gg-grandfather, Colin McBRATNIE, who was an itinerant Methodist > minister. At one time, there was a McBratnie Church that was named for him > -- > my grandmother said it was in Hemlock, but it no longer exists. Anyway, I > have a 1962 newspaper article about the McBratnie Cemetery -- did I send > you a > scan of it? If not, let me know. The article says "James Township officials > appropriate a small amount of money each year to maintain the one-acre > cemetery....The plot is located on Stroebel Road, 1/4 mile west of South > Center Road. It is situated on a slope, high along the road, but low at the > far end....There are only about 20 tombstones in the cemetery today, but > more > persons than that are buried there....the last funeral [was held] 'at least > 25 > years ago.' " > Also from the article: "Names on the stones reflect the hardy German > settlers > who farmed James Township many years ago -- names like BECKER, BUSSINGER, > PABST, BRIGGS, KAUFFMAN and BLOWER. There's also a tombstone with the name > STROEBEL on it, but no one named STROEBEL lies in the burial plot. Many of > the inscriptions are in German." > The article includes biographical info about Jacob STROEBEL and his family. > > If anyone else wants a copy of it, let me know. > Mary Richardson >