It is believed that the first cemetery in Huron was situated on the bank of the Huron River where the Yacht Club and Harbor North Marina are today.According to local folklore, the cemetery was abandoned because Native Americans regularly disturbed the graves at night. A popular story survives about a man who was always feuding with the Indians had contracted small pox and realized he would soon die. He told his family to bury him in the cemetery on the riverbank, knowing that the Indians would most certainly desecrate his grave. As suspected, the night of his burial the Indians dug up his remains and shortly afterwards the Indians became infected and died. (Video: Henry Krock, Evening at the Huron Cemetery, 2017)
The Huron Main Street Cemetery, established in the 1820s in South Huron, or Shirleyville, is on land donated by Abiather Shirley. Many prominent Huron residents were buried there. Many of the gravestones have disappeared or are undecipherable.McMillen Cemetery on River Road is thought to have been established as a family plot for the McMillen family. Most of the burials took place in the latter 1800s and early 1900s. Huron’s smallest known cemetery is Hinde Cemetery, located in a farm hedgerow on Rye Beach Road in Huron Township. The graves of Abigail Hinde, her husband Captain J.G. Hinde and that of an unknown infant are located there.Although located in Milan Township, Scott Cemetery is maintained by Huron Township. The Huron Avery Road cemetery contains many family plots dating from the 1820s to present day, including Huron light keeper Richard Mansell.Restlawn Memorial Park, located on Bogart Road in Huron Township, was established in 1955. Local funeral owner Leon Goff created an adjoining cemetery, Meadow Green in 1988. Goff combined them in 2003 to form Meadow Green Memorial Park.
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