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    • Volunteers
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    • Financials and Bylaws
  • Amenities
    • Pine Grove Overview
    • The Pine Grove Historical Museum
    • The Governor Moses Wisner House
    • Drayton Plains One Room School
    • The Pioneer Museum
    • Library
      • Books and Pamphlets
      • Genealogy
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      • Manuscripts
      • Newspapers
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        • 2018 Summer Social Business Sponsors
      • Underground Railroad Historic Site Tour with Willie Payne
      • 2018 5th Annual Dinner Auction!
      • 2019 Pioneer Reunion and Social – July 27, 2019
      • 2017 4th Annual Fall Auction
      • 2017 Victorian Open House
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  • Judah and Mary Colby Church

    Please note that a monument’s adoption must be fully funded before work begins.

    Location 4-315

    Findagrave Memorials

    Judah Church

    Mary Church

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  • Evelina Talbot Drake

    Please note that a monument’s adoption must be fully funded before work begins.

    Location 4-020

    Findagrave memorial

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  • Clarissa Brownson or Bronson

    Please note that a monument’s adoption must be fully funded before work begins.

    Location 4-355

    Findagrave memorial

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  • Adam Vrooman West

     
    Location 1-027
     
    Link to his Findagrave memorial.
     
     
    Adam West (1824-1892) was a building contractor, grocer and laborer in Pontiac.
     
    Adam’s headstone is prone, just to the right of Maria’s monument.
     
    The monument will be cleaned, leveled and repaired.
     
    Donate to the repair of this monument: Up to $467.50.
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  • Thomas Jefferson Drake

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    Location 4-020

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  • Luman Brownson or Bronson

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    Location 4-355

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  • Maria (Imina or Elmina) Brainard

    Location 1-027
     
    Findagrave memorial 
     

    Elmina or Imina Maria Brainard (1814-1885) was a nurse matron in the Civil War.

    The top of Maria’s monument is broken off, but present.
     
    The monument will be repaired and cleaned.
     
    This monument is pending adoption.
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  • The Thomas Drake Lot

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    Location 4-020

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    Thomas Drake

    Evelina Talbot Drake

    Laura Talbot Dwight

     

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  • Hannah Collier

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    Location 4-370

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  • Captain William Albertson

     
    Location 1-076
     
    Findagrave memorial
     
    Captain Albertson’s monument is prone, laying next to its base. The monument will be repaired, cleaned, and leveled.
     
    Donate to the repair of this monument: Up to $170.00.
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  • Walter Ash

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    Location 4-192

    Findagrave Memorial

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  • Isadore Collier

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    Location 4-370

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  • Images: Burton Collection, Detroit Public Library
  • Maps: Sanborn Maps, Library of Congress
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  • Oakland County Clerk – Register of Deeds: Acreage Search – Historical Land Tract Indexes
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