Scroll down for photos and information from our 2011 Historical Cemetery Tour
Rosehill Cemetery, Eaton Rapids, Michigan May 14th, 2011
This years cemetery tour was excellent! In addition to all the people we visited, we also visited the Mausoleum. Some of the people highlighted were Mayor Barzilla Custer, Mayor G. Elmer McArthur, Mrs. I.N. Reynolds, Herbert Boice, Mrs. Edward (Cora) Horner, Miss Rhea Miller and Liberty Hicks. All were colorful characters in the earlier days of Eaton Rapids.
We recommend buying your tickets in advance for the tour, as there is limited seating on our tour wagon. They are $5 each, $4.50 if you are a member of ERAHS. We accept credit or debit cards for purchases.
Please park at the back of the cemetery to start and end the tour near the Mausoleum. Light refreshments will be served.
Rosehill cemetery is located on West Street. There is abundant history in our cemetery: many of the region’s pioneers are buried here, as well as Veterans from as early as the war of 1812.
On the tour you will meet several illustrious characters from Eaton Rapids history.
Costumed interpreters will tell you a bit about the lives of these people and many more who helped make Eaton Rapids the city it is today.
We recommend buying your tickets in advance for the tour, as there is limited seating on our tour wagon. They are $5 each, $4.50 if you are a member of ERAHS. We accept credit or debit cards for purchases.
Please park at the back of the cemetery to start and end the tour near the Mausoleum. Light refreshments will be served.
Rosehill cemetery is located on West Street. There is abundant history in our cemetery: many of the region’s pioneers are buried here, as well as Veterans from as early as the war of 1812.
On the tour you will meet several illustrious characters from Eaton Rapids history.
Costumed interpreters will tell you a bit about the lives of these people and many more who helped make Eaton Rapids the city it is today.
Paul Malewski, Deb Malewski, Roger Harris, Inge Kyler, Jeff Ostrom
Mary Ann Wesley (front)
Missing: Larry Skinner, Catherine Ottarson
Inge Kyler, portraying Mrs. I.N. Reynolds, active in the temperance movement and the construction of the Red Ribbon Hall in Eaton Rapids
Catherine Ottarson, portraying Miss Rhea Miller, musical daughter of Dennis and Minnie Miller who started Miller Dairy Farm in Eaton Rapids
Jeff Ostrom, portraying Liberty Bell Hicks, Civil War veteran and stone mason
Larry Skinner, portraying G. Elmer McArthur, attorney, mayor, and winner of a medal from the Carnegie Foundation for heroism.
Mary Ann Wesley, portraying Mrs. Edward (Cora) Horner, of the Horner Bros. Woolen Mills
Paul Malewski, portraying Barzilla H. Custer, mayor of Eaton Rapids in 1908-1909
Roger Harris, portraying Herbert Boice, owner of Boice's Bazaar in downtown Eaton Rapids for many years.
Some photos from the 2009 tour (click to enlarge):
