Chester Township contains five cemeteries.  Three are township cemeteries and two are church cemeteries.  Also, many Chester Township residents are buried in cemeteries in neighboring townships:  Lisbon Cemetery in Sparta Township, Kent County; Ravenna Cemetery in the village of Ravenna, Muskegon County; and St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Wright Township, Ottawa County.

Links to the burials in each cemetery are located at the bottom of this page.

Bennett Cemetery:  Established in 1864 and located on 24^th Avenue between Truman and Sherman Streets.  (4 people with the surname Bennett are buried in Bennett Cemetery.)

Church Cemeteries

St. Francis Xavier Cemetery:  Established in 1892 and located on Gooding Street between 16^th and 24^th Avenues.

Trinity Lutheran Cemetery:  Established in1868 and located on Harding Street between 8^th and 16^th Avenues.

In examining the cemetery records, it is interesting to note that in all of the cemeteries, the earliest recorded burials are older than the date the cemetery was established.  It is not known if these earliest graves contain the remains of persons who were buried somewhere else and moved to the cemetery after it was established, or if there simply is a marker on an empty grave.

Some graves could be located on private property.  Only one such grave is known.  Louisa I. Pfeiffer, daughter of Joseph and Olive (Holmes) Pfeiffer, died as a young child, some time after 1884, and was buried on her parents property located on Coolidge Street between 24^th and 32^nd Avenues.  Two lilac bushes, planted at the head of her grave, were the only markers for the grave.