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:

Tutt-Stuckey Cemetery — the Brooks family's acre. On the brow of the hill on the south side of Cleveland Road, midway between Juniper and Ironwood, opposite the Castle Point apartments, stands the small ground the federal record names twice — Stuckey Cemetery (41.72308, −86.22253) in the geographic names, Tutt Cemetery in the same record's gathering — and the county histories know as the Tutt-Stuckey Cemetery. Its paper is the settlement era's own: a square acre that Mariah Brooks, widow of Samuel Brooks, and her children deeded to Clay Township in September 1856 "for continued use as a burying ground," the acre excepted out of the Brooks farm's passage to other hands. Samuel Brooks, dead in 1849, lies under a large tapered monument erected for him and his parents, with the Brooks family and many former nearby residents around him. The ground's modern fame is one stone: in June 1985 an unidentified murder victim, found behind the Howard Johnson Motel on U.S. 31, was buried here under a stone marked "KNOWN ONLY TO GOD" — the ground chosen, on the county cemetery survey's account preserved in Notre Dame's Grotto history, because it was an inactive cemetery. The line: the Census test run for this build places the ground in no census-designated place — Clay Township west of the line, in South Bend's orbit, ZIP 46637. It is the Clay-side pioneer ground nearest the place's western quarter, and it is printed as boundary, at this size, and no more.

Ullery Cemetery — the settler family's ground. The federal record seats it on West Cleveland Road at Roseland (41.72296, −86.24864), west beyond the line. Its name is a Clay Township first family: Joseph Ulery, "one of the first settlers of Clay township" in the 1893 county memoirs, born about 1779 in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. The Wars leg's county index enters one of its Company H burials under the name "Ullery," at the index's own strength, and the Wars leg keeps that entry; the ground itself is a small family burying place at the place's western horizon, printed as boundary.

Sumption Prairie Cemetery — the other prairie's churchyard. Southwest beyond the line stands the burying ground of Sumption Prairie, the farm settlement whose post office and neighborhood straddled the corner where Clay, Greene and German townships meet. The burial record seats the cemetery itself in Greene Township — the 1893 memoirs bury its dead "in the Sumption Prairie Cemetery, Green township," and its transcriptions run in numbered rows west of an arched main gate and south of its driveway, with a flagpole section, from burials of the 1840s forward (John McCullough, born 1781, died December 11, 1846, among the earliest the transcription carries) — while the prairie's name ran into Clay in the period record itself (a Clay Township death of 1906 is recorded at "Sumptions Clay Twsp," its burial at Sumption Prairie), and this build's Wars leg prints the ground as western Clay's. Both attributions stand as their records give them; the cemetery's seat in Greene Township is the burial record's own. The Wars leg counts 88 veteran burials there — "the prairie churchyard's veterans, against the memorial park's 183" — and that count stands pointed to Wars, not re-dug here. It is the measure the Wars leg chose for how the valley's burying moved in a century from the churchyards to the memorial parks, and it closes this roll's west.

Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens — the name that travels. The valley's genealogical record sometimes addresses Chapel Hill to Granger, as the Hinz family history does ("Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Granger"), by the reach of the 46530 post office; its ground is Penn Township's, at Osceola, south beyond the line and beyond Mishawaka — the valley's other memorial park, seated on another township's soil. It is printed here in one paragraph to fix the attribution, as boundary, and its course belongs to the Osceola ground's own record when that build comes. South of the river, the cities' grounds — South Bend's City Cemetery of 1832, Riverview on Portage Avenue, Cedar Grove at Notre Dame — took this ground's city-era dead as they took the county's; the Before the City leg carries the river ground's course, and they stand here at pointer size only.

Sources:

1. "A Cave of Candles," the Grotto history (University of Notre Dame, nd.edu), gathering the Historic Preservation Commission's and the county cemetery survey's accounts (Toni Cook's survey) — the Tutt-Stuckey acre, the Brooks deed of September 1856, the 1849 monument, the "Known Only to God" burial of June 1985; Gleanings of Clay Township as quoted there.
2. U.S. Geological Survey GNIS — Stuckey Cemetery (41.72308, −86.22253) and Tutt Cemetery (41.72310, −86.22251); Ullery Cemetery, West Cleveland Road, Roseland (41.72296, −86.24864); U.S. Census Bureau geocoder test, November 2026 — no census-designated place contains the Tutt-Stuckey point.
3. Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties (Goodspeed, 1893) — Joseph Ulery among Clay Township's first settlers; the Ullery burials of 1891 "in the Sumption Prairie Cemetery, Green township."
4. Sumption Prairie Cemetery transcriptions (INGenWeb / St. Joseph County genealogical record) — the rows, the arched gate, the flagpole section, the 1840s burials; the 1906 Clay Township death record at "Sumptions Clay Twsp" (the Redman family record, gathering the South Bend Tribune of May 25, 1906).
5. The Wars leg of this build — the 88 veteran burials counted at Sumption Prairie; the "Ullery" burial entry in the county index. The Hinz family history — Chapel Hill addressed to Granger, corrected here to its Penn Township seat as boundary.