Dice Cemetery: a Family Ground at Newspaper Strength

on Riley Rd., the township's southwest · burials by 1902 on the press record

The township's fifth ground is its smallest and its least read: a family ground whose whole history in the carriers reached is two funerals and a key entry. Dice Cemetery stands on Riley Road in the township's southwest (federal-derived point 41.507171° N, 86.330186° W, as tabulated in the federal list's derived data); the county site's own updates page places "Dice Cemetery — Union Township, Lakeville" (snippet strength), and the WPA register's key carries its name at pp. 448–452. Its burials stand at newspaper strength, on the Bremen Enquirer items the genealogy trails site transcribes: George A. Longaker, an aged citizen of Union Township, was buried at Dice Cemetery in May 1902 — the funeral preached by the Rev. M. L. Peter, the services held in the yard because of his wife's illness; and Alfred L. Miller, a German Township child of one year and one month, whose funeral in June 1904 was held "from the Lutheran church, four miles west of Lakeville" with interment at Dice — the church, unnamed by any carrier read, is the ground's one institutional thread, and its identification stands as a named gap (the WPA key does carry a "St. John's Lutheran" cemetery at pp. 682–685, township unestablished; the match is possible and is not asserted). One earlier burial prints at family-tree strength only and is labelled as such: Sarah Jane Wright, stated to have been buried here 28 September 1867. The ground's owning congregation, if any, its founding, and its present keeper were not reached in any carrier read — its settlers are the WPA register's typescript history for this ground at pp. 448–452, the inscription volume's headnote, the Recorder's deeds, and the congregation's own records if the four-miles-west church is proven. Its reading state: those five WPA pages, the county site's page for it (snippet strength as read here), a reading implied by the inscription volume's township scope, and an aggregator index of 51 records at index strength.