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the first twelve years · a stated gap, printed as the finding
No carrier read names any burial place in Union Township for the years between the first settlement and the first dated stone. The township's settlers arrived from 1833; its first dated in-township burial evidence is the Lakeville Cemetery stones of 1854; the earliest dated burial of the whole Huggart ground complex is Emma Porter's, 1845 — and she lies in Liberty Township. For the years 1833–1845 this section has no answer, and prints the gap as the finding: where Samuel Huggart's generation buried its dead before the grounds existed — on whose farm, in whose family plot — no marriage, history, marker, or register read says. Farm burial was the period's ordinary practice; it is not asserted for any named family on this record, because asserting it would invent the very thing the leg exists to recover. The settlers stand named: the WPA register's typescript cemetery histories (which sometimes date a ground's first burial), the inscription volumes' earliest-stone dates across the township, a targeted re-read of the two county histories for burial passages, and the state registry's lost-ground entries for this township's survey sections.
The sweep's exclusions close the file, each kept so the next reader need not re-run it. The four other church place-names of this build's religion file — Maple Grove, Pleasant View, Tabor, and Saint Johns — were tested against every cemetery enumeration reached, and no ground is evidenced for any of them; their burial-ground existence stands as one named gap with the township's field and registry settlers. Fair Cemetery, which surfaces in searches of this county's records, is excluded on its carrier: it stands in Liberty Township, by North Liberty, a different ground for a different build. The township's true census, as this section leaves it, stands: Lakeville Cemetery; Lamb's Settlement; Dice; Mount Calvary (subject to its township-line gap); Porter-Rea in Liberty Township, by assignment; Mount Zion over the Marshall County line, serving the south end; Olive Branch not evidenced; and the pre-1845 farm burials unlocated. Every ground in that census has its founding, its keeper, and its reading state printed above — or its gap named's note, which is the same honesty in the other form.