Kelley Cemetery, Genoa Township

The Kelley Cemetery, section 13 of Genoa Township, is located on the west side of Hacker Road between Hyne and Bendix roads. The Kelley farm was across Hacker Road in Brighton Township. The cemetery was reported abandoned in 1948 in Vol II, Rural Cemeteries of Livingston County. All of the stones in the 1948 reading were located except one (Lydia Benjamin, dau of N & L Benjamin Died Sept 23 1852 Aged 1yr 1m 29ds). The reading of this unfound marker has the same death date and age as the still legible marker for Florence Amelia Benjamin. Some markers have fallen; some have broken and some have sunk part way into the ground. The cemetery is covered with myrtle and thickets of bushes. This cemetery was visited on May 17, 2005 by Patricia Morcom and Emma Winegarner. Photographs were taken and tombstone readings recorded. Notes are inside [ ].

• Ira C Hathaway Died Aug 11 1845 Aged 35 years 6Ms
• Sally , wife of Ira C Hathaway Died Nov 7 1848 Aged 17yrs 8mos [Age on this stone has sunk. The manuscript for Volume II, Rural Cemeteries of Livingstonounty, Philip Livingston Chapter, NSDAR, Howell, Michigan, 1948 reading records Sally's age as 17yrs 8mos].

• James Murray Died Oct 2 1872 Aged 59yrs 1m 12ds
• Eunice L Murray , wife of James Murray Died Apr 23rd 1849 in her 32nd year

• Emma Lina Mix Died Aug 9 1873 Aged 61yrs 4mos 27ds [Stone is broken. The part bearing the death date and age is lying face down. The date and age were taken from the manuscript of Volume II, Rural Cemeteries of Livingston County, Philip Livingston Chapter, NSDAR, Howell, Michigan, 1948]

• Ophelia , wife of G Hazard Died Mar 6 1858 Aged 62yrs 10M 9da

• Sarah , wife of Christopher Benjamin Died Aug 22 1839 Aged 61years [The date and age on this stone have sunk below ground level. The date and age were taken from the manuscript of Volume II, Rural Cemeteries of Livingston County, Philip Livingston Chapter, NSDAR, Howell, Michigan, 1948.]
• Jane , wife of A F Benjamin Died Jan 22 1835 Aged 25yrs 1Ms 12d
• Florence Amelia, daughter of Nelson & Lidia Benjamin Died Sept 23 1852 >Aged 1yr 1mo 29ds [This stone is out of place and leaning against a tree. Near this stone is another stone with about 6 inches protruding above the ground. No writing is visible on it.]

• Nora , dau of O & L Spenser Died Aug 8 1851 Aged 1yr 1mo 12da FootStone N S
• Nancy , wife of Olympus Spenser Died May 28th 1841 Aged 23yrs 6Months Footstone N S
• [The two Spenser stones are in a thicket of bushes.]