ALLEGAN COUNTY (WKZO-AM) — It may sound like the set up for a horror film, but an Allegan judge has approved plans to continue construction of a home at the site known as the Schruer Farm Cemetery.
The parcel is just over an acre and there is no official township record showing that it was ever a burial ground. But Salem Township wasn’t organized until decades after the cemetery may have been abandoned, according to sketchy atlases, notations and records from the early 1800s.
Several citizens took out a petition demanding the township remove any remains, but now judge Kevin Cronin has ruled there is no hard evidence there was ever a cemetery there.
He said, if there was, due to decay the search for remains “would be an unnecessary waste of time and (would) become a ghoulish fishing expedition.”
The judge has cleared the deed and construction can resume.
