Bethany Indian Cemetery in Saint Louis, Michigan

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Coordinates: 43.43310, -84.59940
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Bethany Lutheran Indian Cemetery is all that remains of the Bethany Mission to the Ojibwe/Chippewa. That mission was started in 1847 by Eduard Raimond Baierlein, a German Lutheran pastor trained and sent as a Christian missionary by the Leipzig Mission Society of Leipzig, Germany. With their support, Baeirlein was originally slated to become an assistant to Pastor August Craemer at the more established Ojibwe mission in Frankenmouth, MI. But it was later decided (through consultation with Ojibwe Chief Bemassikke) to start a new mission in the wilderness now known as Bethany Township (later named after the mission). Baierlein was recalled by the Leipzig Mission Society in 1853 and reassigned to India. The mission struggled after Baierlein left Michigan. It was finally abandoned in 1857 after the federal government forcibly relocated the Ojibwe to Isabella County (Michigan).