Bruce Armada Cemetery
Located on Armada Center Road Cast of Kanie Road and west of McFadden Road along Bruce Township’s East boundary with Armada Township on 5.387 acres plotted; 2.494 acres unplotted for future use
Approximately 2,064 graves
McCafferty Cemetery
Located on Van Dyke Avenue (M-53) between 34 Mile & 35 Mile Roads on 4 acres
Approximately 2,348 graves
Goodrich Cemetery
Located on North Kidder Road between Van Dyke Avenue (m-53) and Bordman Road on .60 acres
Approximately 324 graves | No graves are available for sale
Price per grave:
Bruce Township Resident: $1,000.00 | Non-resident: $2,000.00
Opening / Closing Fee:
- Regular Grave: $750.00 (Saturday | Sunday | Holiday $850.00)
- Infant: $300.00 (Saturday | Sunday | Holiday $475.00)
- Cremation: $350.00 (Saturday $400.00 | Sunday $450.00)
- Foundation: 0.55 per square inch for standard sized monuments. Additional costs will be charged at the discretion of the Cemetery Sexton.
Cemetery Rules
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History of McCafferty Cemetery
A History of McCafferty Cemetery
provided by the McCafferty Cemetery Association
This is an old cemetery dating its beginning on November 29, 1841 when John M. Butterfield and his wife Susan, of Bruce Township, sold the Union Society of the Township of Bruce for $50.00, a one acre piece of land 13 rods square, off the SE corner of the E ½ of the NE ¼ of Section 22 in Bruce Township. This is Section A of the Cemetery.
On April 14, 1914, George W. and Nellie E. McCafferty, of Romeo, sold the Union Society of the Township of Bruce the parcel, 13 rods square, lying directly west of Section A. This is Section B.
The name was changed to McCafferty Cemetery Association on February 18, 1920. Two more acres, lying north of Sections A and B, were purchased June 27, 1940 from James and Bertha Burleson and David and Lillian Davis. This area is Section C and D.
About 1928, Edward F. Fisher, of Detroit, purchased a large tract of land in Sections 17, 28, 19 and 20 of Bruce Township. About 1930 he obtained permission to make a lake by damming the stream which crossed the property and to remove the old cemetery which was there.
The Cooley Cemetery, a pioneer burial ground, was located on the SW ¼ of the SW 1.4 of Section 17. According to history this area was known as Cooley’s Corners, first settled by Samuel Cooley in 1831. (MPH 26: 547, 1985) it was the practice in pioneer days to use the log school houses for religious meetings, and burials were made behind them. Perhaps this may account for the location of this cemetery.
A group of men were hired by Mr. Fisher to move all the bodies from there to cemeteries of relatives’ choices. A few graves had no stones, and were unknown, so these remains were taken up and interred along the west fence of McCafferty Cemetery.
The Fisher land was eventually sold to Ford Motor Company and is now the Ford Proving Grounds.
McCafferty Cemetery is beautifully kept by the Association. Many lovely old trees shade the older part. The original iron fence, with its decorative gate, fronts Section A.
On May 12, 1986 the McCafferty Cemetery Association adopted a resolution conveying the McCafferty Cemetery, by warranty deed, to the Township of Bruce.
