Gibson Cemetery
In 1872 Joseph and Sarah Blades sold the land (Old
Cemetery) to the Laketown Board of Health with a warranty
deed recorded in 1912. Then, in 1965 James Boyce sold the
rest to Laketown, with a warranty deed being recorded in
1965.
Gibson Cemetery is the only cemetery in the township.
For information on plot purchase, please call Mary
Geurink at the Laketown Township office... 616.335.3050
Cost for residents: $100.00 per plot for the first two
plots purchased; $500.00 for additional plots.
Cost for non-residents: $600.00 per plot.
For a complete list of burials for Gibson Cemetery, click
here.
Attention genealogists.... we would like to register
Gibson in the Michigan Tombstone Transcription Project.
We have several volunteers who have finished photographing
and transcribing tombstone information. Thank you to those
who volunteered!
Names and Dates of those buried in Gibson Cemetery are
available online. Some of this information is incomplete -
but soon it will be updated along with photos of each
tombstone. You can see the information by visiting
http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/michigan/allegan.htm
Thank you to Jan Cortex from the Michigan Tombstone
Transcription Project for assisting us.
