Articles for tag: Ann Sweet, Memorial Day, Michigan Historical Marker, Rice Cemetery

Historic Marker Recognizes Pioneer Cemetery—and the Stories That Shaped a Nation

Growing up, Chelsea resident Ann Sweet spent hours in the Rice Cemetery in Milan Township with her grandmother Nellie. They visited ancestors’ graves, planted flowers, cleaned up after funerals and picked wild asparagus. From when she was six or seven her grandmother told her stories of times past. Sweet remembers those tales when she walks ...