Oak Grove Cemetery

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8690 Whitbeck Road

Montague, Michigan 49437

231-894-4414

Sec. 20, T12W, R17W

 

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History

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In order to understand properly the municipal history of Whitehall and Montague, it is necessary to understand the history of Oceana Township which included, until 1874, both Montague and Whitehall Townships and the northern portion of Blue Lake.  Oceana was organized from White River Township in 1859, There were about 35 voters present and the following is a list of the first officers:  Supervisor, I.E. Carleton, Clerk, Moody Farman; Treasurer, Adnreas Knudsen; Justices of the Peace, Lewis Grow, Thomas Sedden, Jas. B. Jewell; Highway Commissioners, Jas. Jewel, Peter Hobler; School Inspector, I.E. Carleton; Overseers of the Poor, John Killson, Evan Knudsen; constable, Thomas Sedden Jr., Dan’l Basom.

Montague Township was formed March 24, 1874.

In 1855 all that was in the village was Nat. Sargent’s house, blacksmith’s shop and barn, which were sold in 1857 to G. W. Franklin who built a house and sold in 1859 to N.H. Ferry.  In 1859 the Maple rove Mill was built by James Jewell who sold to Heald, Avery & company in 1860.  Wilson & Hendrie’s foundry was built in 1872.

A new school, Franklin House, Odd Fellows’ Lodge and a Lutheran church were all opened in 1874, the year Montague was made a separate town.  Its first officers were:  J. Heald, Supervisor; H.C. Sholes, Clerk; Malcolm Hendrie, Treasurer.

A.B. & D.C. Bowen built their mill in 1866, F.H. White & Company in 1871-2.  The first newspaper issued on November 29, 1873 by H.C. Sholes & Company, the Vedette newpaper  first issued September 2, 1874.

The great fire of Montague occurred February 21, 1873 and the first fire department was organized that year.  The Booming Company, organized in 1869 and in 1874-5, the Presbyterian Church was built.

Hulbert Cemetery in Maple Grove near Witbeck & Anderson Street in Montague, Dorothy Hulbert Kutz, Montague asks in a John Chisholm column in the Muskegon Chronicle, “Years ago, dad, Earnest Hulbert told me that when he was a young man rambling in Fruitvale area, he found an old cemetery and every stone was a Hulbert grave.  He could never find cemetery later on.”

Chisholm says in Montague at Whitbeck Road and Anderson Street in Maple grove this was known as Hulberts Corners.

(Contributed by Tressa Anderson)

(Oak Grove Cemetery researched by Evelyn Buckingham from the Muskegon County History)

 

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