Second family seeks answers on remains of loved one at Detroit cemetery
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Another family wants answers regarding loved ones remains at Detroit cemetery
DETROIT – A man claimed his mother was buried here at Gethsemane Cemetery on Detroit’s east side some years ago, but he’s not sure exactly where her body is located.
He said he’s gotten the run-around from the former company for years.
“We supposedly bought a plot here and my mother was supposedly buried here in 2018,” said Michael Wilson.
Wilson said he’s still not sure if that’s the case. His 50-year-old mother, Lori Wilson, died from surgery complications in 2018. He said he paid for his mother to be buried in Gethsemane Cemetery on Gratiot Avenue and he believes she’s there, but he doesn’t know exactly where because he never saw her body placed in the ground.
A Detroit family was shocked to find four bodies in a relative s gravesite, and the relative was not among them.
Ever since Desmond Stinson died in 2016, the family has been going to the Gethsemane Cemetery in Detroit to pay their respects.
But when Desmond s mother recently died, they tried to exhume his body to move it to different cemetery to be with his mother.
That s when they discovered four bodies in his burial plot, and Desmond was not among them.
A spokesman for the Detroit General Services Department which oversees maintenance at the cemetery has apologized, saying he believes there was a record-keeping issue.
Holy Ghost to close for Elliott funeral
Holy Ghost Lutheran School will be closed Tuesday to allow school staff, students and families to attend the funeral service for Chris Elliott, assistant executive director on the parish coordinating council at the church, who died Monday after being ill since March.
The service will be held at 11 a.m. outside the school at Gruber and Heiss Rds. and follow a visitation inside the church that starts at 10. Burial will follow at Gethsemane Cemetery near the church.
Arnold Brown says he has some answers.
The Englewood historian came forward this week in response to a NorthJersey.com story about the long-forgotten burial site and the freed slave who owned the land.
According to a plaque at the grassy field on Cedar Street, Francis Jackson purchased 7¾ acres of woodland here in 1868 that later included a church and a cemetery where former slaves are believed to be buried.
Who was Francis Jackson?
Brown, who is writing a book about the early history of African Americans in Bergen County, said he found out about Jackson while researching the Gethsemane Cemetery in Little Ferry. That cemetery is one of the oldest African American burial sites in New Jersey.
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