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Sylvan Township cemetery rediscovered

Redford Township resident George Sherfield told the Sylvan Township Board on Tuesday, April 1 that he found a small cemetery in the township while hunting in the area eight or 10 years ago.

The Glover (or Richards) Cemetery is off Loveland Road west of Crooked Lake, and contains nine graves from three families. The cemetery has been overgrown and Sherfield plans to clean up the cemetery on Saturday, May 31, at 10 a.m., and is looking for volunteers to help with the effort.

“These people are pioneers; they don’t deserve to be forgotten,” Sherfield said of the people buried there.

He hopes after the initial clean-up that other residents will step up and maintain the cemetery.

Sherfield pointed out that one grave contains William Glover, who died in 1855 at age 66, and that he was alive when George Washington was still president.

Anyone who is interested in volunteering should call Sherfield at 313-533-6108.

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