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Indiana does not give its township trustees every cemetery in their townships, and this section assigns each ground on its own evidence rather than by the blanket rule. On the State Board of Accounts' own statement of the statutes: under IC 23-14-69 a township trustee cares for each public cemetery that belongs to the township — a chapter that expressly does not reach a cemetery owned or controlled by a city, a town, or a voluntary association; under IC 23-14-68 the trustee locates and maintains every cemetery in the township that is without funds for its maintenance, existed on 28 February 1939, and is run by a nonprofit or by no viable organisation at all — resetting and straightening monuments, levelling, seeding, fencing — and the trustee is not authorised to maintain city-, town-, or association-owned grounds. Union Township's trustee is Kelly Carrico (R), in office since January 2023, at 117 S. Main St., Lakeville — named here as the township's public record prints her; which of this section's grounds stand in her care is answered ground by ground below, and in two cases the record read does not answer it at all. No St. Joseph County cemetery commission list, and no county list of the state's pioneer-cemetery project, was found's searches — a searched negative, printed as one, not a claim that no commission exists; and the state historical bureau's cemetery heritage-sign list for this county names four grounds, none of them in this township.
Two published readings cover the township's stones, and every ground's reading state below is stated against them. The first is the South Bend Area Genealogical Society's St. Joseph County, Indiana Cemetery Inscriptions — Volume 4 (Union, Centre, and Madison Townships; 322 pages, 11,164 names) for this township, and Volume 1 (Greene, Liberty, and Lincoln Townships) for Porter-Rea — the series running 1992–1999. The second is older and partial by design: the WPA Graves Registration Project of 1939, whose key assigns page ranges in this township — Lakeville pp. 674–681, Dice pp. 448–452, Lamb's Settlement pp. 1090–1096, Porter-Rea pp. 778–781 — a register of male burials only, preceded in places by typescript cemetery histories that are, for several grounds below, the named settler for everything this section could not reach. No carrier read enumerates Volume 4's contents cemetery by cemetery, so a ground's presence in that volume is stated from the volume's township scope plus any direct pointer, and the contents check stands as this section's first named gap.