Forest Hill Cemetery (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
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Forest Hill Cemetery in Ann Arbor, Michigan is a 65 acre cemetery founded in 1857. A civil engineer named James L. Glen designed the cemetery in the rural or garden style popular in the second half of the 19th century. The cemetery's main gate was designed by James Morwich in the Gothic Revival style. Gordon W. Lloyd, a prominent architect from nearby Detroit, Michigan, designed the cemetery's gatehouse and sexton's residence, also in the Gothic Revival style.
In 1859 Dr. Benajah Ticknor was the first person to buried in Forest Hill. Ticknor was a surgeon for the US Navy and was also the owner of what is now Cobblestone Farm in Ann Arbor.
[edit] Notable persons interred at Forest Hills
- William Fletcher, first chief justice of the state of Michigan
- Bo Schembechler, football coach
- Bob Ufer, University of Michigan sports broadcaster
- Leslie White, anthropologist
- Fielding Yost, football coach
