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1842–PRESENT · THE UNDERDAKER LINE AT FULL STRENGTH · THE REST AT THE STRENGTH REACHED
How missed: the trades have no corridor. The gazetteer and directory headings are the catching net, and they were run heading by heading; what they caught, and what they provably did not, follows.
Undertakers — the line runs whole, and it begins exactly where the checklist says it begins: in the university's coffin shop. The house now named McGann Hay was founded in November 1842 as the Notre Dame Undertaking Parlor, by Father Edward Sorin and Brother Francis Xavier — the brother became the university's mortician and coffin maker, steward of the Community and Cedar Grove cemeteries, and in time a licensed Indiana mortician; two Holy Cross brothers named Lawrence succeeded him as the university's licensed undertakers, the mortuary moving with the campus (Engineering Hall in 1905, Notre Dame Avenue in 1909). When canon law required the university to disconnect itself from profit-making businesses, Notre Dame sold the undertaking parlor on November 1, 1911, to Lewis W. McGann, who ran it almost seventy years and moved it in 1925 to 424 North Michigan Street, South Bend. The Hay line joined it (Forest G. Hay, 435 South Ironwood Drive, from 1979), and the merged house's own history carries the line onto this ground in one sentence: "In November of 2005 McGann opened the newly constructed Granger Chapel located at 13260 SR 23 and Cherry Rd., which is the only funeral home in Granger." A second house is listed under a Granger address in the current directories — Palmer Funeral Home's Welsheimer Chapel North, 17033 Cleveland Road — printed here as the directories print it, the address sitting on the place's Clay Township edge where the postal and census maps cross. So the trade's course on this ground is: a century and a half served from the university's and then South Bend's parlors, and a house of its own only from November 2005 — and that house the direct corporate descendant of the 1842 coffin shop.
The remaining trades print at the strength the headings give them, which is mostly the strength of an absence honestly recorded. Printers: no commercial printer appears in the Granger listings at any date reached; the only printing on the ground in the record is the Granger Gazette, the Harris Township trustee's newsletter — a government circular, not a trade house. The ice trade and the laundries: no ice house, ice dealer or laundry appears under Granger in Polk's 1882–83 entry or in any directory record reached; a farm township hauled its ice from Mishawaka's and South Bend's ice houses and did its laundry at home and in the cities' laundries, and the headings' silence is printed as a tested negative at directory strength, settler the SJCPL county directories' trade headings if a contrary listing exists. Coal and the carrying trades: the station village's inbound coal is carried in the banked village article as the railroad's merchandise; the directory record adds the carrier's name — F. Robinson, railroad agent, is one of the only two business names in the 1882–83 Granger entry (see the sweep article) — and the county's coal-dealing name of the generation, the North Liberty Lumber and Coal Company (incorporated 1904), belongs to Big C's boundary lineage, not to this ground. The trade with no heading was the gap leg's signature catch in prospect; in the event, the catch is the undertaker, whose heading the corridor sources never print, and whose line the firm's own history carries unbroken from a coffin shop of 1842 to the only funeral home in Granger.
Sources: McGann Hay, "Our History" and "About Us" (the founding of November 1842 by Sorin and Brother Francis Xavier; the coffin making and cemetery stewardship; the two Brother Lawrences; the sale to Lewis W. McGann, November 1, 1911; 424 North Michigan Street, 1925; Forest G. Hay, 435 South Ironwood Drive, 1979; the Granger Chapel, opened November 2005, 13260 SR 23 at Cherry Road, "the only funeral home in Granger"). Palmer Funeral Homes directory listing (Welsheimer Chapel North, 17033 Cleveland Road, Granger). Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer, 1882–83, Granger entry (the Robinson agency; no ice, laundry or printer listing). Banked Businesses (the village article's coal; the tested negatives; the Granger Gazette as carried in the Government leg).