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Religion — Indian Village, Indiana
The leg's verdict, stated first
Chapman (1880), Clay Township chapter, read whole in Pass IV-2; Howard (1907), Vol. I, Ch. VIII §7, the church passage verified against the…
No congregation has ever been proven to stand inside the Town of Indian Village The religious history that belongs to this ground is a township history: one German Baptist congregation, planted in Clay Township by 1868, carried…
The parent body and the denomination's course
Shultz, History of the Church of the Brethren in Indiana (1952), Parts 12 and 14, read whole at transcription strength; Winger, History of…
The people Chapman and Howard call "German Baptists" were the German Baptist Brethren — popularly Dunkards, for trine immersion — who took the formal name "The German Baptist Brethren Church" in 1871 and, at the Annual Conference…
The meeting-house of 1868, identified
Chapman (1880), p. 677, read whole from the page-image text in Pass IV-2; Howard (1907), Vol. I, Ch. VIII §7, verified verbatim in the…
Two county histories fix the township's church. Chapman, in 1880, places a German Baptist church building on section 24, erected 1868, its first pastors Jacob Cripe and Christian Wenger, its pastor in 1880 John B. Wrightsman.…
The St. Joseph Valley congregation, 1881–1921
Shultz (1952), Part 14, "St. Joseph Valley (1881–1921)," read whole at transcription strength; Part 12 for the 1882 report
On 29 January 1881 the northern territory was organised as its own congregation. In Shultz's words: "The St. Joseph Valley congregation was a part of the St. Joseph congregation until January 29, 1881, when the new church was…
The funeral line, 1916–1928: the congregation's last services
South Bend News-Times, 23 Oct 1916 (snippet strength); South Bend Tribune, 16 July 1920 (transcription read whole); South Bend Tribune, 7…
The obituary record is where the congregation's last years are visible. In October 1916 the funeral of Susan Wells was held "from the residence and at 2.30 o'clock from the Ullery church, Rev Cripe officiating. Burial will be in…
The in-town test, at depth: no congregation inside the town
The six sweeps of November 2026 described below — the University of Notre Dame's Places of Worship list and the South Bend Area…
Notre Dame's Places of Worship list — 63 entries across every denominational class, read whole — carries the northern-Clay ring (Clay United Methodist, Prince of Peace Church of the Brethren, Community Congregational, Northway…
The mid-century era: what the instruments can and cannot say
Indiana Historical Records Survey, Directory of Churches and Religious Organizations in Indiana (1940–41), at catalog strength…
The federal church directory of 1940–41 cannot speak for this township, and the build says so instead of quoting its silence. The published set has no St. Joseph County volume: it runs to a Marion County volume, a Calumet-region…
The boundary ring: the churches around the town, each on its own ground
The Academy's and the orders' own carriers, the diocesan paper, and the executed directory lists named in the pass note — pointer strength…
Howard's exception — "except those at Notre Dame and St. Mary's" — is the frame. South of the town stand the great Catholic institutions of the Notre Dame community: Sacred Heart at the university and the Church of Our Lady of…
The present state, dated November 2026
The November 2026 sweeps above; the cemetery listing class at search strength
The town's religious landscape in November 2026 is a landscape of absence inside the line and presence around it. Inside the town: no congregation, in any directory class executed. On the old Brethren ground: no successor…