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The Burying Grounds · Where This Ground Keeps Its Dead
Before the cemeteries: burial on a settlement ground
1830–1834 · THE PRACTICE BEFORE THE FIRST GROUND
The settlers of 1830 buried their first dead four years before this ground had a burying ground: Harris Prairie Cemetery's sign and record date its opening to 1834 — after the first land entries of April 1830, and two years…
Harris Prairie Cemetery: the ground of 1834
14500 ADAMS ROAD · ESTABLISHED 1834 (THE COMMISSION'S FORM PRINTS 1840) · TOWNSHIP-KEPT
The place's oldest institution is a cemetery: Harris Prairie Cemetery, on the south side of Adams Road less than a mile east of Fir Road, carries a sign and a record that agree — established 1834, four years after the first…
Salem Cemetery: the congregation's ground in the township's keeping
ASH ROAD AT BRUMMITT ROAD · BESIDE NEW SALEM UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 52173 ASH ROAD
The second of the township's two grounds stands where the township ends: Salem Cemetery, on Ash Road against the St. Joseph–Elkhart county line, north of Brummitt Road — the federal geographic record fixes it at 41.73551…
St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park: the memorial park at the doorstep
375 WEST CLEVELAND ROAD · THE LINE STATED · IN USE BY 1956 · EVERSTORY PARTNERS TODAY
The ground first, with its line stated plainly, because this build prints lines: St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park stands at the corner of Grape Road and Cleveland Road, addressed 375 West Cleveland Road, Granger, Indiana 46530 …
The small-grounds test: family plots and churchyards inside the line
TESTED NOVEMBER 2026 · THE FEDERAL NAME RECORD WHOLE
Every burying ground the record names for the two townships has now been placed, and the test that remains is the negative space: the federal geographic record names exactly two cemeteries in Harris Township — Harris Prairie and…
Beyond the line: the boundary grounds
BOUNDARY · EACH WITH ITS LINE STATED
Four grounds beyond the line belong to this record at boundary size, because this ground's dead and this ground's families are in them, or because the record itself keeps mistaking them for this ground's:
The keeping of the record: trustees, associations, and the readers of stones
THE RECORD APPARATUS · 1834–PRESENT
This ground's dead are kept twice over — in the ground, by the township, and on paper, by a century of readers: The keeping in the ground follows the pattern the frame named. Harris Prairie and Salem passed to the Harris Township…
Cemeteries: Not Found and Still Open
THE RESIDUE · NOVEMBER 2026
Tested negatives. (1) A fourth burying ground inside the line. The federal geographic record names two cemeteries in Harris Township and seats Clay's other two named grounds west of the line; the memorial park stands at the…