Redford Cemetery
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In 1831 Israel Bell, a Pekin Village commissioner, gave one acre of land to the village for a cemetery. Originally called Bell Branch Cemetery after the river and the settlement founded by Bell in 1818, its name was changed to Redford Cemetery after Pekin’s modern name, Redford Township. Additional acreage obtained in 1840, 1854, and 1883 expanded the cemetery to ten acres, of which half is in Redford Township and half is in Detroit.
A wrought iron fence was built for the cemetery in 1886 with money contributed by Redford Township citizens. Among those buried here are Israel Bell and many war veterans, including two from the Revolutionary War and many from the War of 1812, the Civil War, and World War I.
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