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Original plat, Coquillard's Addition, and the four later additions
An addition on record before the original — and now the 1875 plat itself, read from its page, agrees with Howard's geography lot for lot. The ground is the east half of the southeast quarter of Section 34 and the west part of the southwest quarter of Section 35, T36N R2E, on either side of the Michigan Road. The course, with each element's carrier attached: Coquillard's Addition was platted 18 August 1857 by Alexis T. (Alexis Theodore, the son), Alexis (the nephew) and Frances C. Coquillard (the widow of the elder Alexis Coquillard, one of the founders of South Bend) — long lots on the west side of the road, numbered 1 to 9 in the 1875 inset. The original plat — Lots A, B, C, D, E and F, a single tier on the west side of the road — "is first shown on record as lying north of and adjoining Coquillard's addition," and was itself placed on record 23 December 1859, "but again in connection with the Coquillard addition" (Howard, p. 314, page image). The 1875 Atlas's plat of Lakeville (p. 40), read from its page image, corroborates the geography independently and exactly: the "Original Town" tier of Lots A–F on the west side of Michigan Street, "COQUILLARDS ADD" in its tier of long lots immediately south of and adjoining it, "HENDERSONS" on the east side north of Fourth Street facing the original tier, "HUPPS" inside the east-side grid between Second and Third Streets, and "ULLERYS ADD." across the blocks north of Fourth Street — the whole under the title "LAKEVILLE / Town 36. N. R. 2. E.," with streets lettered Michigan, First through Sixth, and (at crop strength) Main and Grand in the east grid. Howard names four later additions — by John Henderson, Michael Hupp, Stephen A. Ulery and Sarah E. Rush (pp. 314–315) — and no date for any of the four stands in any carrier reached; the Atlas labels three of the four and labels no Rush component, its main east-side grid carrying no proprietor label at all, and this build does not assign that grid to Rush on this evidence. The proprietors stand in 1875 life in the Atlas's directory: Hupp farming in Section 35, in the county since 1836; Ullery — so spelled in the Atlas, plat and directory both, against Howard's "Ulery," the two spellings printed whole in the register — farming in Section 35, settled 1844; a Rush dry-goods household, Wellington Rush's, in Section 35, settled 1841, Sarah E. Rush herself not a directory entry. No addition beyond these five components was named by any carrier reached in two web-strength searches, the residue standing that an addition named only in the Recorder's plat books cannot be excluded from here. And the course's standing negative is now proved at page strength in both printed carriers: neither Howard nor the Atlas names a dedicator or surveyor for the original plat — the inset has no title block beyond its town-and-township line, no certificate, no acknowledgment, no "platted by," no date — so the want (G-LD-3) stands exactly where it stood, on the recorded plat instrument itself. Its residue at web strength is named plainly: the county's Land Records Search page routes recorded instruments only through Fidlar's paid products — Laredo, a subscription for frequent users, and Tapestry, pay-as-you-go at a stated $8.75 search fee plus per-page image fees, searchable by document type and subdivision — with in-person research at the Recorder's office, Room 321 of the County-City Building, beside it; Doxpop, which two third-party guides name for this county, does not carry St. Joseph County on its own partner list, and the founding-era plat volumes' digitisation was, on a September 2025 summary at snippet strength, still a grant application rather than a finished collection. Nothing was signed up for and nothing was spent: a single Tapestry search for the 23 December 1859 recording is the named future step, and it waits on an authorised spend.