Pepper Street Cemetery

In an article written in the Dearborn Independence issue October 12, 1914, listed this cemetery as "abandoned", "long unused", and "ordered vacated."
A court order was issued by a Judge Murphy in circuit court on a Saturday morning vacatinthean abandoned private cemetery in Dearborn Township. The township Supervisor at that time was, Samuel B. Long. He presented a petition from Dearborn residents requesting the order.

This cemetery was on less than an acre of land, on the old Sloss farm, between Dearborn Boulevard and Pepper Road. The petition stated the cemetery has become a "commons" .

Long testified on the stand, that he was familiar with the cemetery for about 50 years, prior to the date of this article (1914), and that no one had been buried in the cemetery for about 30 years. And for the last 20 years, it had been practically abandoned, and it's boundary lines were obsolete. The only marks of identification, according to Long were seven or eight tombstones.

The petition was signed by John P. Zeigler, W.H. Zeigler, J. Squerfeld, H. Thomas, Anthony H. Bock, E. F. Miller, Henry Bock, George H. Jubb, W. H. Halpin and Julius Drews.

There is no indication in the article what was done with the remains, nor if there were really 7 or 8 stones still here, who they were, or what they had done with them.

Contributed by Linda Ball
I did some searching at the Dearborn Centennial Library in Dearborn on Michigan Avenue, just west of Greenfield. And also, at the Dearborn Historical Archives, trying to locate information on 3 cemeteries in Dearborn, that are no longer at the locations listed in the Michigan Cemetery Location Book.