Updated: 21 August 2008
Scroll to the bottom of this page to view pictures of the cemetery and gravestones.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mivanbur/CemKern.htm
The Kern Cemetery is located about 1 mile north of the Adams family farm, Porter Township, Van Buren County, MI).
Kern Cemetery -- Photo of cemetery -- scroll to bottom of page.
Kern Cemetery Index -- Database from RootsWeb (Row, Position, Surname, Given Name, Dates, Marker, Memo)
Van Buren County Cemetery Index (List of cemeteries indexed)
Van Buren County Cemetery Tombstone Transcription Project
Other family cemeteries are the Bly Cemetery located about 1 mile east of Marcellus, Cass County, MI) and the Nicholsville Cemetery located about 2 miles west of Marcellus, Cass County, MI and about 3 miles north. Also known as the Rosehill Cemetery.
The 3 cemeteries mentioned are where many of the Adams-McKain family members are buried.
Pictures will be posted on this page. Please return often for updates and submit your pictures to Jim Adams for posting.
Franklin B. Adams Obelisk (closeup of base)
Franklin B. Adams (Father)
Lorania G. (Kinney) Adams (wife of Horace Adams)
Lucinda Adams (wife of F.B. Adams)
Solomon Bates (Franklin Kinney Adams is the husband of Josephine Bates, granddaughter of Solomon Bates)
Mary (Chapman) Bates (wife of Solomon)
George Colvin (brother of Lucretia Colvin who married Elijah Kinney)
Phebe Colvin (wife of George Colvin)
Lucina (Kinney) Corey (wife of N.H. Corey & daughter of Elijah & Lucretia Colvin Kinney)
Mary Corey (wife of Warren S. Corey)
Addie B. French (relationship unknown)
Kern Cemetery (looking west)
Kern Cemetery (looking east)
Elijah J. Kinney, d. 17 June 1864
Elmer D. Kinney obelisk
Iva Kinney (daughter of A.B. Kinney)
Julius Kinney (son of Joseph & Eliza Kinney)
Maria E. Kinney (daughter of Jacob & Elizabeth Kinney)
Carissa ? Kinney (daughter of Niles H. & Sarah Kinney)
Olive E. Kinney (daughter of Jacob Colvin & Elizabeth Mack. Kinney)
Roswell C. Kinney (son of Jacob Colvin & Elizabeth Mack. Kinney)
Susan Abbot Kinney (wife of Horace H. Kinney)
? Pangborn ? (help needed with transcription)
? (help needed with transcription)
James O. Smith (relationship not known)