Nowlin Cemetery
VanBorn & Madison Streets | East of Telegraph
Dearborn Heights, MI
Wayne County

Nowlin Cemetery, also known as William Nowlin Cemetery, is a small family burial site. There are other family's buried here, however the tombstone total is only about 27. The land here was once the west corner of William Nowlin's farm located in what was then called Dearborndale or Dearbornville.

BOWLES, Miss Bessie Nowlin December 31, 1915 *only date on stone*

CRANDELL, Rueben "Elder" born July 30, 1819 died May 19, 1889
CRANDELL, George April 16, 1883 *only date on stone*

GRIFFIN, May 1847 - 1920
GRIFFIN, Eunice 1873 - 1893
GRIFFIN, Merrill 1848 - 1890
GRIFFIN, Mary E. 1876 - 1890
GRIFFIN, Orson 1871 - 1872
GRIFFIN, M.T. "Co. B 193 NY Inf" *no dates on stone*

LAPHAM, Henry "Co E. 2 Ill GAV" *no dates on stone*

NOWLIN, William "born Putnam County, NY" September 25, 1827 died June 10, 1889
NOWLIN, Queenie "daughter of Wm & Annie" born October 1888 died January 1890
NOWLIN, Henry 1861 - 1919

PENNY, Alfred born Decmber 6, 1900 died March 25, 1906
PENNY-SHEPPE, Caroline "wife" born December 16, 1858 died June 17, 1925
PENNY, George Byron "husband" born January 1, 1847 died April 25, 1925
PENNY *unreadable*
PENNY, Orsa "wife of E.G." born January 24, 1821 died January 1, 1891
PENNY, Elezer G. born September 16, 1815 died 1894

SHEPPE, Frederick Wihelm *unreadable stone*
SHEPPE-FITCH, Louise born April 1, 1825 died September 29, 1912

THOMPSON, Josephine L. 1856 - 1877
THOMPSON, Alfred 1858 - 1880
THOMPSON, Sarah A. 1827 - 1896
THOMPSON, James 1823 - 1901

WHITMORE, Marlin B. *rest of stone unreadable*
WHITMORE, Abby J. "his wife" 1834 - 1902

WILSON, Sarah *rest of stone unreadable*

UNKNOWN, Dorathy "wife of" *stone broken*
next to Dorathy's broken stone
UNKNOWN *unreadable* "died aged 17yrs"

Contributed by Linda Ball