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SBAGS Cemetery Locations; Chapman (1880), p. 677; the sibling Clay Township pass at its strengths
Stuckey Cemetery is the township cemetery of Chapman's list. The society gives Stuckey, Clay Township, NE ¼ of Section 30, T38N R3E, on the south side of Cleveland Road a quarter-mile west of Ironwood, "(Also known as Tutt, Sossoman, Township)" — and the alias Township is the key that fits Chapman's lock: his "one on section 30, known as the Township Cemetery" is this ground, the public burying ground of the township's first-settlement section, some two miles east of this town. The federal-map-derived list carries it as Tutt Cemetery. It prints at pointer: the township's ground, serving the town as the township's grounds do, owned whole by no town's file.
Saint Joseph Valley Memorial Park is the township's living cemetery: a commercial memorial park, Clay Township, E ½ of Section 28, T38N R3E, Cleveland Road at Grape Road, carried at 375 West Cleveland Road under a Granger postal address — the ground where the township's modern dead, veterans among them at the federal listing's strength, are buried now, east of this town at pointer strength. One caution rides with its name: the society's own file carries a cross-reference — "Saint Joseph Valley See: Ullery" — pointing the congregation's name at the Brethren ground, while also carrying this park's full entry under the same name; whether that is the stale alias of the St. Joseph Valley congregation of 1881 or an indexing error is unresolved on the record reached, and neither ground is ever printed under the other's name in this build.
Two grounds survive as list entries and family memory. Harris Family, Clay Township, S ½ of Section 23, T38N R2E, "(Also known as Sider's Mill)," standing "on the grounds of what is now the Isaac Walton League," its whole condition in one sentence: "Private Property… all headstones are gone." The mill builder Jonas Harris and his wife Barbara were buried, at his request, on the farm back of the mill house on that section, their grave's place already "really unknown" in 1901; the identification of the family ground with the mill-house burial is not proven and prints at pointer strength only, both halves unmerged. McCombs, Clay Township, Section 35, T38N R2E, is the extinct ground: "This cemetery no longer exists. It was located where Lake Marion is on the campus of St. Mary's College," all headstones gone and no records associated with the burials. The name is a founding name — Lambert McCombs was of the township's first settlement, 1829 — but the entry names no McCombs burial and this section claims none.
Two of the society's seven Clay entries are church memorial gardens, printed as what they are — columbaria, where ashes rest in niches, not burying grounds: Trinity Memorial Garden Columbarium at Christ the King Lutheran Church, 17195 Cleveland Road; and Saint Michael's Memorial Garden and Columbarium at Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, 53720 North Ironwood Road. Both are modern, both belong to living congregations outside the town, and both print at list strength, for completeness of the sweep and for nothing more.