Mount Calvary Cemetery: the Parish Ground on the Highway

Sacred Heart of Jesus parish · north of town on U.S. 31

The township's Catholic dead lie in a parish ground whose keeper is certain and whose founding date no carrier reached gives. Mount Calvary Cemetery stands north of town on U.S. 31 (federal point 41.57211° N, 86.26318° W) and belongs to Sacred Heart of Jesus parish, whose course stands in this build's religion file: founded in 1932/33, first Masses on 18 December 1932 in the abandoned Pleasant View School, formally dedicated 23 June 1933. The diocese's own paper, in the parish's eightieth-anniversary history, records that "farmland was later purchased for classroom space and for Mount Calvary Cemetery" — later, and no more: no date, acreage, seller, or price in the text as read, and no separate founding or consecration date for the ground was reached. The ground cannot precede the parish on this record, and one silence is printed as an observation, not a dating: the 1939 WPA register's key carries no Mount Calvary entry, consistent with a purchase after 1939 but not proof of one, in a register that is male-burials-only and whose key may not be exhaustive. The ground is also known locally as "Sacred Heart" — the county genealogical site's 2006 correction, on a parish priest's authority as the note attributes it, states that "Sacred Heart is actually Mount Calvary in Lakeville but many know it as Sacred Heart" (carried at labelled snippet strength, as that carrier class requires) — so obituaries naming "Sacred Heart Cemetery, Lakeville" are read as this ground. Its keeper today is the parish: the Diocese of Fort Wayne–South Bend's own directory lists "Mount Calvary Cemetery — Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish" among its Catholic cemeteries, which places the ground outside the township trustee's statutory care altogether; no parish cemetery committee, sexton, or separate cemetery corporation for it was named in any carrier read. Its reading state is the thinnest in this section: no published transcription of the ground was identified — no WPA entry, no society transcription page, only an aggregator index of 153 records at index strength — and whether the inscription volume for this township includes a Mount Calvary reading is unconfirmed, standing in this section's first named gap. Even its township is a flagged item: the federal lists assign the point to neither township's cemetery list, and whether the parcel falls in Union Township's north tier or just over the Centre Township line is unsettled on the carriers read, its settler the county's parcel overlay. The settlers for the ground's whole course are the parish's and the diocese's archives (deed and consecration record), the Recorder's deed for the farmland purchase, and the inscription volume's headnote if it carries one.