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Detroit's Mount Elliott Cemetery

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ISBN-10: 0738540935

ISBN-13: 9780738540931

Edition: 2006

Authors: Cecile Wendt Jensen

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Mount Elliott Cemetery is Detroit's oldest extant cemetery, started by the Catholic community in 1841. The consecrated ground is named for architect Robert T. Elliott, who was instrumental in purchasing the land and was the first interment. The roads in the cemetery honor religious leaders: (Pope) Pius Avenue, Bishop LeFevere Avenue and Place, and Bishop Borgess Avenue. The remaining roads carry biblical themes: Calvary Avenue, Holy Cross Place, Trinity Avenue, and Resurrection Avenue. Remains from Detroit's St. Anne's cemetery were brought to Mount Elliott, where French, German, and Irish surnames abound. The tombstones at Mount Elliott reflect family names well known in the tricounty…    
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Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication date: 11/8/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.044
Language: English

Cecile Wendt Jensen is a native Detroiter. Her grandparents arrived in Detroit in the 1880s and 1890s from Russian Poland, West Prussia, Posen, and Galicia. Cecile has taught in public schools for 30 years in traditional and electronic art, art history, and social studies. She is a certified genealogist and develops Web sites, videos, CDs, DVDs, and databases for genealogists of all ages.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Mount Elliott Cemetery Association
Erin go Bragh
Canadiens
Flemish of Flanders
German Volksdeutsch
Polonia
Religious Orders
Military
The Last Alarm