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SBAGS Cemetery Locations; German Township's own cemetery page, record strength; the religion file, Pass IV-3
South of the town stand famous grounds that are not this town's, printed at pointer as their own builds' property: the Notre Dame grounds the society places in Portage Township — Cedar Grove Cemetery, established by Father Sorin in 1843, which is also the "another in connection with Notre Dame University" of Chapman's 1880 Clay list, the township line having been drawn by the society through Portage where Chapman counted it with Clay's public cemeteries; the Community (Holy Cross) Cemetery of the Congregation of Holy Cross; the Saint Joseph (Holy Cross) Cemetery at Holy Cross Village — a separate ground from the Community Cemetery, the similar names a merge trap; and, for Saint Mary's, the Sisters' Our Lady of Peace Cemetery on the college campus, its establishment dated 1868 by the Congregation's archival guide.
West of the town, on another Cleveland-and-Adams-Road geography, stands the ground this section's first ground is confused with — and the confusion is documented in the society's own file, which lists "Ullery Cemetery" as an alias of the German Township ground while also listing Ullery as its own Clay Township entry. The German Township ground is Portage Prairie Cemetery, on the north side of Adams Road, a quarter-mile west of Orange Road in German Township — "also known as the Dunkard Cemetery, Ullery Cemetery, and Rough Cemetery," deeded as a cemetery in 1844, in use since 1836, kept today by the German Township Trustee. It is a different ground from the Clay Township Ullery of this section — different township, different road, some seven kilometres apart, a different congregation's dead — sharing a family name and a faith and nothing else, and the two are never merged in this build. German Township's second ground carries the third trap of the same kind: Cripe-Witter Cemetery, on the north side of Cleveland Road between Portage Road and Lynnwood Avenue — Cleveland Road again, but German Township's stretch of it — its graves dating to 1834, declared the county's first cemetery historic landmark on 13 August 1991. Road names repeat; townships and sections do not, and the record in this build is kept by the latter.