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Tested one by one, per the checklist
Claim 2 — the Huggart Settlement as waystation: no evidence, refused by its own carrier. The tradition runs that a free Black settlement a mile from the county's most documented abolitionist's mill must have sheltered fugitives. Karst, the settlement's own digger, states expressly: "although no evidence exists to show it was anything more than coincidence, the settlement was a mile from a sawmill at Olive Branch operated by… Solomon W. Palmer." Windle's abolitionist roll contains no Huggart, Bass, Boone, or Manuel name. Proximity is the whole of it. Claim 3 — Sumption Prairie and Olive Branch: tested negative. Samuel Huggart's seat on a Sumption Prairie Baptist building committee (1852) stands against LK-2's full-text read as conflict C53, whole; Andrew's membership there and his Sunday-school superintendency at Olive Branch are documented — and no station, stop, or fugitive claim for either church or the Olive Branch school appears in Dakin/Windle, Karst, Chapman, or Howard. Integrated worship and schooling are documented; they are not UGRR evidence and are not converted into any. Claim 4 — the Michigan Road: documented generally, not claimed here. The Bureau's corridor account and the state literature (Finkenbine: the road "a major thoroughfare for freedom seekers") stand at state strength — and the tradition's own book carries the limit: Windle quotes Professor Wilbur Siebert finding "no conclusive evidence that a direct route came through South Bend," corroborated by the county's oldest residents. A route or station in Union Township, on the present record: not claimed. One name is fenced in print so no later telling merges it: Farrow Powell, a Black landowner who bought land adjoining the settlement in 1861 and a parcel from Palmer in 1862 but did not live in Union Township (Karst, against the DNR listing — conflict C35, whole), is not David Powell of the fugitive case; the shared surname is a coincidence of the record.