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Chapman (1880), Clay chapter, "Churches and Cemeteries," p. 677, verified verbatim from the page-image text (settler G-T-2, discharged for this chapter); the range caution as printed below.
The section's one nineteenth-century institution stands in print with a caution attached to it. Chapman, whole: "There is only one church in Clay township besides the Catholic… It is a German Baptist organization, and the church building is located on section 24. It was erected in 1868 by means of individual donations. The first pastors of the church were Jacob Cripe and Christian Wenger… The present pastor is John B. Wrightsman." And the cemeteries, whole: "There are three public cemeteries in the township; one on section 25 near the German Baptist church; one on section 30, known as the Township Cemetery, and another in connection with Notre Dame University."range 3 east" — while the town's Section 25, as the frame pass derived it, lies in Range 2 East, in the fractional strip the township took from German east of the river. Clay's footprint holds both ranges, and with them two sections numbered 25; Chapman's text alone does not say which of them holds his cemetery, and this build does not say it for him. The passage therefore stands at township strength, at its own place: a German Baptist congregation of 1868, its building on a section 24, its burial ground on a section 25 near it — the strongest nineteenth-century statement about any section 25 in Clay Township, printed whole, and never merged into the town that would not exist for another century. Beyond that single sentence, the chapter says nothing more of the ground: no burials, no dates, and no resident placed on section 25 anywhere in Chapman — a negative proven by the whole-chapter read.