Detroit Free Press , March 4, 1899 I doubt that this is a new revelation to anybody who has a deep knowledge of the Wayne County Asylum & Eloise but it took me many years of researching the institution before I finally made this connection. That being, William Ganong, he of the cemetery fame, was the uncle of the owner of the Black Horse Tavern which became part of the Wayne County Poorhouse. Known as Uncle Jerry, he was a successful farmer and business owner that fell on hard times and ended up at the Poorhouse where he died in 1899. He and his wife Lavina Ganong Townsend are both buried at the William Ganong Cemetery in unmarked or degraded graves. Which is more proof that Eloise and Ganong Cemetery are and were inextricably connected.