Saving Graves
"Working together to preserve and protect endangered cemeteries"

Date: April 19, 2001

Cemetery: Leonard Cemetery
Established:
Street: S. Dixie Hwy (MI 125) west side; about 400 ft from road near Woodchuck Creek.
City: La Salle, MI (about 3/4 mi south of cemetery)
Township: Monroe Twp
County: Monroe County
State: Michigan
Nation: USA
Zip: 48145
Nearby: Mortar Creek Rd is about 1/2 mile north of cemetery
Reached by: Crossing property-private
Location: Rural-agricultural
Land: Flat
Water: No
Features: cement block wall; overgrown trees and tree saplings
Sign: No
Land Type: Private
Access: Closed
Surrounded by: None
Gate: None
Status: Abandoned
Size: Small
Unmarked graves: No
Markers:
Gravestones: 5
Broken gravestones: Yes
Toppled gravestones: Yes
Buried gravestones: No
Removed Gravestones: Unknown
Weather problems: Yes
Pollution problems: No
Oldest grave: 1845
Newest grave: 1874
Association: No
Records: Yes
Inventory: Yes
Records location: Inventory available at Monroe Historical Society, Monroe, MI
Condition: Cemetery in danger of destruction
Vandalized: No
Vegetation: Damaging gravestones
Vegetation problem: Trees
Vegetation problem: Overgrown-vines
Drainage: Good
Problem: Disintegrating Headstones
Work Status: No work started as of yet
Owner: Private
Use: Agricultural
Bordering: Agricultural
Change: Unknown
Reason:
Visited: Unknown
Archeology: Unknown
Previous contacts: No one

Other information

One of the gravestones has a tree inscribed on it.

Support Contacts

Monroe County Historical Society, 
126 S. Monroe Street
Monroe, MI 48161
(734) 243-7137

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