The first notation of an Institutional cemetery was in 1892, whe the Hospital arranged with Catholic Bishop Foley to move the bodies whcih had been buried northwest of the County House to an island in the middle of the reservoir. This move was made to afford the first paving of Michigan Avenue, which occured in 1910; and part of the artificial lake at the time had to be filled in, in addition to using the area of the cemetery.

After the beginning of the century, two cemeteries were used – one on the northwest corner of the farmland south of Michigan Avenue, and one further south on the farm site facing Henry Ruff. Each plot was marked with a headstone and a number. For the next 38 years the bodies of deceased patients without known relatives where buried by inmates’ help from the Infirmary Division. Beginning in 1948, all unclaimed bodies were sent to Wayne University College of Medicine; and the practice of interment in the Hospital cemetery discontinued.

[ This information presented in whole from “A History of the Wayne County Infirmary, Psychiatric, and General Hospital Complex at Eloise, Michigan” by Alvin C. Clark; page 114. ]