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Byron Village Cemetery

310 Hamilton

Byron, Mi. 48418

810-266-5090 (option 3)
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Effective September 12th, 2024

Burial times: Weekdays and Saturdays between 8am – 3pm
No Sundays or Major holidays (listed below)

Byron Cemetery History

Byron Cemetery originated with the 1837 interment of Theodore H. Provost, the son of one of Byron’s founders. According to local historians, Chippewa lived on this site until it became a cemetery. Byron Cemetery contains some sixteen hundred nineteenth-century graves. The remains of fifty-six Civil War soldiers and veterans are interred here, including those of James Sleeth, a surgeon during the war who later became a lawyer and newspaper publisher.
 
A large pedestal with crossed rifles honors unknown Civil War dead. Fieldstones from local farms, urns, obelisks, and monuments with common Christian symbols such as angels and weeping willows mark the graves in Byron Cemetery.
 
In keeping with Judeo-Christian tradition, burials are oriented east to west. A mysterious exception is the grave of Richard Tubman, a thirty-five-year-old Irish horse groom. His grave, marked by a pulpit with a closed book, is oriented north to south. A seated maiden honors Ellen May Tower, a Spanish-American War nurse who died of typhoid fever in Puerto Rico in 1898.

What You Need To Know:

There are typically 4 things to do when it’s time to bury a loved one.
  1. Contact a funeral home and discuss arrangements.
  2. Contact the cemetery to arrange the purchase of a grave or graves. You can choose the location of them or we can do that for you.
  3. There is a charge for the opening and closing of a grave whether it is a traditional casket burial or a cremation burial. This can be arranged by the funeral home or the cemetery, they will work together.
  4. After the burial, a headstone or marker is required. You can contact a monument company to place an order and they will contact us with the size and we will make a concrete foundation for it to rest on. There is a charge for this that varies on the size of the headstone or marker.
If you have a loved one’s cremains, call the cemetery, purchase a grave if needed and arrange an open and close date and time and contact a monument company to order a headstone or marker.
 
Each grave may hold one casket and one cremation container or only two cremation containers.
 
If you have any questions, please contact us.

For More information please contact [email protected]

Pricing Information:

ADULTS
1 Grave purchase $850.00
1 Casket open & close $875.00
1 Cremains in a vault or utility container $400.00
BABYLAND (up to 1 year of age)
1 Grave purchase $400.00
1 Casket open & close $400.00
1 Cremains in vault or container $400.00
1 GRAVE CAN BE USED FOR
● 1 casket and 1 cremains vault or container
● 2 cremains in separate vaults or containers.
● 2 cremains in one vault or container will be charged for two openings and closings,
(no exceptions).
HEADSTONES/MARKERS
● Headstone placement flush, w/o foundation $150.00
● Headstone foundation cost 0.60 cents per square inch
● Headstone foundations must be 4 inches longer and 4 inches wider than the
headstone.
● We would like headstone dimensions 1 week before headstone can be placed on it,
we need time to make it and allow the concrete to cure.
FOR A CREMAINS BURIAL
We need the transit permit before the cremains can be buried.
We also need the dimensions of the cremains vault or container.
If frost in the ground is too hard or too deep, the cremains open and close will need to wait until the ground has thawed.
Additional equipment cost may apply (ask for more examples).

Disinterment & Reinterment $2000.00
Deed transfers or reissues $200.00

Holidays (New Years Eve Day, New Years Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day).

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Cemetery Payments:

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