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the County Line Brethren ground · North Township, Marshall County · the assigned question, answered
The County Line Brethren congregation worships in St. Joseph County — and buries in Marshall County. This build's religion file carries the church: the County Line congregation, its Plano German Baptist Brethren register caption placing it at "St. Joseph County," part of the township's religious geography by parish life. The assigned question was whether a burial ground exists for it, and on which side of the line. The answer: a ground exists, and it stands on the Marshall County side. The Marshall County Historical Society's cemetery listing (snippet strength, its text not read directly) heads it "County Line / Mt Zion Cemetery," at the southeast corner of the county-line road, in North Township, Marshall County (T35N R2E), its earliest marked stone dated 1906, the ground shown on the 1908 and 1922 county maps, and calls it a "church cemetery," a congregation's ground. The coordinates print whole because they disagree: the museum listing gives 41.475782, −86.298073; the federal record gives the ground the same name at 41.47595, −86.29521, and its derived tabulation a third figure, 41.47435, −86.29714 — all three south of the county line, at township-point level agreeing that the ground is Marshall County's, at survey level an unresolved ~175-metre longitude variance. Its denomination and keeper follow its carrier: the congregation's own ground, under the congregation. Its whole course belongs to Marshall County's build, not this one; it stands here at the size of the question that was asked, with the museum's cemetery file and the Tombaugh volumes of Marshall County inscriptions named as its settlers. The practical consequence prints plainly: a Union Township family of this congregation rests across the county line, in another county's record, and no St. Joseph County census of this township's grounds is complete that forgets it.