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Famous People — the Negatives Roll
No famous person is tied to this town in any register tested
Tests run, each at search strength: the exact-phrase search "born in Indian Village, Indiana"; a general fame search across athlete, artist and notable; and the birthplace registers named's sports fragment.
The tests were run, and they came back empty. An exact-phrase search for a person "born in Indian Village, Indiana" returned other Indiana birthplaces — Beech Grove, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Gary, Indianapolis — and no person of this town. A general search for the town's famous natives returned state-level lists in which the town does not appear. The birthplace registers of the sports record (next fragment) hold no name for this ground either. What the searches did return, and what is refused here in print, is the fame of other grounds: Notre Dame and South Bend names, which belong to the city and the university south of the town, and the genuine antiquity of Noble County's Indian Village, which belongs to Sparta Township. Neither is entered. The finding is a tested negative at search strength, printed where the leg requires it: at the strength reached, the Town of Indian Village has no recorded famous native, resident or passer-through — a statement about the registers tested, not a proof that no notable life ever touched its 0.09 square miles.