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The open question: the ground's bounds and its keeping (G-RL-3, carried open)

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What is not proven prints just as plainly. The cemetery's own founding: no deed and no earliest-stone date was reached — the society's published reading of the ground and the county deed records for the NW ¼ of Section 25 are the settlers. Its keeper after 1921: no association, trustee, or successor church is named by any carrier reached — the community names in the society's listing are consistent with community keeping and name no keeper; the present-day listings carry the ground on West Cleveland Road under a Roseland postal address, which is a listing, not a keeper. Its plotted place: three coordinate pairs stand in the sibling record — the federal-map-derived listing, the society's list, and a places aggregator — all on the same Cleveland Road parcel area, printed whole and unmerged in the sibling file, with the GNIS feature record as settler. And its bounds against the incorporated lines around it stand unproven: for the neighbouring town the question is live — the 1928 carrier says "north of Roseland," the society places the ground in the township, the postal address says Roseland, and none of those is a boundary survey. For this town the geometry is not close: the ground stands on Cleveland Road east of IN-933, roughly a mile west and north of Indian Village's west edge, with unincorporated township ground between — no part of it is claimed for Indian Village, and no carrier places any part of it inside this town. The bounds/keeping question therefore stands in this build exactly where the earlier passes left it — open, as gap G-RL-3, its settler the township trustee's records and the state cemetery registry entry, with the town boundary record against the parcel record behind them

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Source: The open question: the ground's bounds and its keeping (G-RL-3, carried open), Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/indian-village/cemeteries/open-question-the-ground-s-bounds-and-its-keeping/