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Welcome to the Historic Redford Cemetery Redford Cemetery became a Michigan Historic Site on June 13 1986. In 1831 Israel Bell a Pekin Village MI commissioner gave one acre of land to the village for a cemetery. Originally called Bell Branch Cemetery after the river and the settlement founded by Bell in 1818 the name was changed to Redford Cemetery following the village renaming to Redford Township. It also was known as the Pioneer cemetery.