Old Village Cemetery in Brighton holds rededication ceremony

BRIGHTON, Mich. (WXYZ) - One of downtown Brighton's treasures sits just behind the old Town Hall building on Main Street. Tucked in, next to the Mill Pond, sits the Old Village Cemetery, a place where several veterans have been laid to rest since 1837.

Jim Vichich, with the Brighton Historical Society, and several volunteers have spent countless hours restoring and dressing up the closed cemetery for a rededication ceremony that was held Monday. The ceremony will not only honor veterans, but it will also honor those who helped Brighton forge a path to what it is today.

From Michigan's 10th governor, Kensley Bingham, who helped establish Michigan State University, to a slave named John McKinney, who settled in Brighton; to John Gilluly, who died as he gallantly charged at Fredricksburg, the Old Village Cemetery has stories to tell.