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                       MASON COUNTY POOR FARM CEMETERY
                       (section 20, Amber Township)

        On May 28, 1942, the last residents left the Mason County Poor
     Farm for the newly opened county convalescent home, the former
     residence of the late Dr. and Mrs. GEORGE E. GRAY.  In September,
     1995, George Wilson, daily columnist for the Ludington Daily News, got
     into a "Whatever happened to?" mode regarding the cemetery at the Poor
     Farm.  Readers responded with the information that many of the paupers
     were taken to a potters field in Lakeview Cemetery in Ludington.  This
     potters field is now adjacent to Cartier Park.  Others were taken to a
     potters field next to Brookside Cemetery in Scottville.  The "potters
     field" portion of this cemetery is now on a private farm.
        As of 1960 there were no headstones to be found at the old Poor
     Farm cemetery but depressions in the ground marked where graves may
     have been.  Government officials investigated the site in 1960 but
     reportedly found no bodies there.

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