KATHRYN PARK CEMETERY

This property was purchased in 1824 by a few men from a Mr. Mitchell. It was overgrown, one acre of ground. The land had been surveyed by a Mr. Ballenger. According to the HISTORY OF BERRIEN COUNTY, MICHIGAN, published in 1880, the first person buried here was a child of David Sanford*. The earliest burial is that of Robert Cathcart, d. 1845, and next is that of Sarah Mitchell, 1846, wife of H. Mitchell, probably the Mitchell referred to above. The stones are now located on, a hillside at OAK RIDGE CEMETERY, in Buchanan. The original site is now named Kathryn Park and is a children's playground at the intersection of Fourth and Moccasin Streets in Section 26.