WIXOM CEMETERY

The Wixom Cemetery, which is located on the northwest corner of N. Wixom and W. Maple Roads in Wixom, occupies 6.12 acres of land.  At the present time the Cemetery contains 1,255 known burials of which 233 date from the nineteenth century. The gently rolling landscape is enclosed with an iron fence and marked with a Victorian era arch. The grounds contain several family monuments, fieldstone headstones with various carvings, and granite markers. Headstones note the graves of Sibley, Wire and Wixom as well as other early settlers of Wixom.

The Wixom Cemetery originated as the South Commerce Burial Ground.  In 1838, Wixom pioneer Alonzo Sibley (1810-1896) donated an acre of land for cemetery purposes immediately south of his home. Sibley was the first president of the future village of Wixom as well as the first president of the burial society. The cemetery has historical significance as the final resting place of Wixom’s earliest pioneer settlers including Ahijah Wixom (1794-1855), after whom the village took its name, and Reverend Samuel Wire (1786-1870), pastor of the First Free Will Baptist Church from 1853 to 1860.

On October 23, 1987 the South Commerce Burying Ground (Wixom Cemetery) was listed in the State Register of Historic Places as Michigan Historic Site No. 1464 The Wixom Cemetery observed its sesquicentennial anniversary as a burial site in 1988. Click for fees (Cemeteryinformation.pdf)