Maple Hill Cemetery, Cadillac, Wexford, Michigan – Block O Lot 352

Maple Hill is a larger city cemetery, located on the south side of Cadillac, Michigan. I have collected a number of photographs from this cemetery and will post my photographs by lot number.

Lot 352, block O was purchased by Henry C. Ballou on 18 August 1893, according to cemetery records. Everyone buried here seems to have some relationship to the Ballou family.

There are a number of burials on the lot, my photos are linked. There was one listing with no birth, death or burial dates for “Ballou, Baby” in a computer printout of burials in the Cadillac Wexford Library at the time I did my search. A small marker with the name “Elton” on the front may mark the baby’s grave. I cannot read the back of the marker from the photos I have, and cannot find any record for his birth or death. However, on the 1900 U.S.census of Cadillac, Wexford, Michigan Sarah A. Ballou, wife of Henry C. Ballou is listed as the mother of 5, 4 living. I can account for her four children alive at that census, so perhaps Elton was the fifth child.

Ballou, Elton
Ballou, Henry, 1854-1926. was the son of Byron Ballou and Hannah Eldred.
Ballou, Sarah (Cornwell), 1860-17 July 1906 was the wife on Henry Ballou.
Ballou, Byron, ca 1827-11 January 1901
Ballou, Hannah (Eldred), ca 1828-27 December 1915, wife of Byron Ballou
Ballou, Henry Cornwell, 3 Nov 1892 – 3 Dec 1965 was the son of Henry and Sarah Cornwell
Ballou, Bertha Kaiser, 21 Feb 1893-11 June 1981 was the daughter of William Kaiser and Delia Conway and wife of Henry C. Ballou.
Ballou, Elizabeth Ann 21 May 1917 – 18 Feb 1922 was the daughter of Henry C. Ballou and Bertha Kaiser.
Ballou, Lornezo D., 24 Jan 1852 – 5 July 1905, was the son of Byron and Hannah (Eldred) Ballou.
Hall, Hattie Ballou, 1867-1896, was the daughter of Byron Ballou and Hannah Eldred. Her death record is here.
Brown, Martha Thompson, September 11, 1905 – 21 May 2008, was the daughter of Maude Ballou and her husband Howard M. Thompson.
Brown, Frank

My connection to this family is Bertha Kaiser Ballou. She was my grandmother’s half-sister.