Looking out over an abandoned, overgrown lot tucked in an Ypsilanti Township neighborhood, it doesn’t look like a cemetery.

Woodlawn Cemetery is currently unrecognizable as a burial ground. Overgrowth has turned the spot into an urban prairie where most grave markers have descended underground. It was purchased in 1945 by ...

Yet as severe storms rolled through Michigan on Sunday, March 30, half a tree came crashing down on Lyon’s grave in the village’s historic cemetery. “This is our history,” said a ...