[2] The Woodmere Cemetery Association was organized on July 8, 1867, by a group of prominent Detroit businessmen who purchased approximately 250 acres to establish a rural cemetery for the city of Detroit.

[6] She was soon joined by approximately 2,000 removals from Detroit's City Cemetery that were reburied at Woodmere.

In 1896 the Civil War soldiers buried at Fort Wayne were moved to Woodmere as the cemetery there had fallen to decay and the records were in shambles.

[11] The American Moslem Society purchased a section at the northwest corner of the cemetery within view of its mosque on Vernor Highway.

The United Auto Workers also placed a headstone on an empty space in the same row as the others for Curtis Williams, a marcher who died several months later due to unrelated causes.