Re-Elect
Judge Marilyn
KELLY
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Michigan Court of Appeals — 2nd District
"Judge MARILYN KELLY,
who had a notable career
as a trial lawyer and
former president of the
State Board of Education,
has been an outstanding
judge since going on the
bench in 1988."
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cemetery and over-
turned grave stones.
On Nov. 3, 1884,
the Montefiore Lodge
purchased 17,638
square feet, lots 1-33
in the northeast part
of Section E, at Wood-
mere Cemetery. The
cost: $2,592.
Meanwhile, the old
cemetery was sold for
$1,550 in 1884 to
John Breitmeyer, a
commercial florist
whose greenhouses
were just west of the
cemetery in Ham-
tramck.
Remains from
graves from the orig-
inal cemetery were
moved (at a cost of
$43.20 each) to the
new grounds on Nov. Verdun
21, 1884. Forty graves
were moved, consisting of 12
adults, 27 children and one
child from a cemetery vault.
The new Free Sons of Israel
cemetery at Woodmere, where
it can be found today, was ded-
icated in a service conducted
by Rabbi D. Benjamin Eger.
T
here's a heavy smoke-
stack, like a dark neck
reaching deep into the
sky, just outside the
cemetery gates. To its left is a
train clack-clack-clackety-
clacking down the rails.
Inside the grounds, a visi-
tor mows the lawn around the
tomb of his lost loved one.
Birds gather on a small lake
where children stop to leave
bits of bread and broken
crackers.
Many of those buried at the
Free Sons of Israel Cemetery
died in the 1800s or the early
1900s. Who they were, who
they loved, what they did, has
long since been forgotten.
There's a last name Smit.
Born in Amsterdam in 1788.
Date of death? Impossible to
tell; the bottom half of the
tombstone has been swal-
lowed by the ground.
Aupther white stone, flat
into and held tightly by the
earth, is completely unread-
able. All that shows is two
hands parted in the signature
of Kohenim. Grass grows be-
tween the hands.
A number of the stones are
covered with soot — soft, black
scars that came with the
nearby industry. (The Ford
Rouge complex, as well as
heavy and light manufactur-
ing along Fort St., are close to
the grounds.)
There's a headstone beside
a block, sharply broken at the
top, that reads "Perpetual
Care."
One of the largest sections
of the cemetery is the final
resting place of Jewish immi-
grants from Holland, like the
Smits and the Van Baalens.
"Mother" reads one Van
Baalen tomb. "Father" says
another. Gertrude Van
Baalen's gravestone has sunk
deeply into the ground.
Under the pine tree there is
a large marble tomb that lies
heavy over the bodies of three
children of Hermann and Ju-
lia Jacobs: Milton, who died in
1890 when he was 21 days old,
Sigfried who died in 1889,
when he was 5 months, and
Katie, who was 2 months old
when she died in 1884. Grover
Cleveland was pres-
ident.
And it isn't only
the aged graves that
are faltering here.
headstone,
One
above a soul who
died in 1978, already
is sinking into the
earth.
"Robinson" is all
that's readable on a
white stone showing
an illustration of two
hands clasped in
friendship.
Samuel Convissor
was a private first-
class in World War I
whose stone has a
fading Magen David
at the top. It is one of
the few signs that
this is a Jewish
cemetery.
There's little He-
brew, though one
stone bears an elaborate
monogram of lines and curves,
and the graves often carry
English messages, a few
words to describe a lifetime.
"The World Is Better Be-
cause She Lived," reads the
"My father used to
say, 'People don't
know how hungry
they are until they
have to eat grass
soup'"
— Herman Neuman
tomb of Clara Greenthal
Hamburger.
"Dear Husband," says the
grave of Sigmund Schor.
There is even a Henry
Greenberg — no relation to
the baseball star.
The Marx family had its
own section at the cemetery.
Ruth Naomi is buried there;
she was 16 when she died in
1918. There was a father Ben-
jamin and somebody named
Susie — only the first name is
legible.
Some of the few graves still
maintained belong to the Mar-
c"