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Chapman (1880), Clay Township chapter, read whole in Pass IV-2; Howard (1907), Vol. I, Ch. VIII §7, the church passage verified against the page in the sibling Roseland pass; Shultz (1952), read whole at transcription strength; the directory sweeps of November 2026
No congregation has ever been proven to stand inside the Town of Indian VillageThe religious history that belongs to this ground is a township history: one German Baptist congregation, planted in Clay Township by 1868, carried in its denomination's own history as the St. Joseph Valley congregation worshipping in the Ulery meeting-house, and disorganised in 1921, its members going to the South Bend churches. The town itself — laid out a generation after that congregation ended, on the adjoining section — has always lived its religious life in other places' churches: the Brethren ground to its north in the horse-and-buggy era's tail, and the Clay Township and South Bend congregations around it since. That is the finding; the articles below are its evidence, era by era, with the one question the record cannot answer — what became of the meeting-house building — stated as a gap, not a guess.