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Cemeteries
The frame: three kinds of holder, five named grounds, and a federal list that undercounts
1830–2026
Olive Township's dead rest in grounds held three ways — by a congregation, by the township, and by the town — and the written record names five grounds for the township and its town, of which the federal-derived lists can find…
Hamilton Church Cemetery: the 1830 ground
1830–present
The township's first burying ground opened with its first church. The Methodist society organized at Hamilton in 1830 — the first congregation organized in St. Joseph County, on the Religion section's record — and its cemetery is…
Olive Chapel Cemetery: the Christians' ground, the township's charge
1841–present
The second congregation ground in the township is the one the township itself now keeps. Olive Chapel Cemetery began as the burying ground of the Christian congregation organized on 1 January 1841 — the Olive Chapel Christians of…
The New Carlisle Cemetery: the town's own ground
By the nineteenth century–present
The town's burying ground stands at the west end of its main street, and in 2026 it is run the way the town runs its water: as a department, by a board, under an ordinance with a price list. The seat is West Michigan Street, the…
Maple Grove: a ground in one sentence
By 1907, at the record's strength
One of the township's grounds exists in the written record as a single clause, and this section prints it at exactly that size — no larger, and not erased. When Howard's county history set down, from the Indianapolis News…
The Terre Coupee parish ground: a tested question
1884–present
A Polish parish seated since 1884, with a school, a rectory, a hall and a grotto, would ordinarily keep a burying ground of its own — and for St. Stanislaus Kostka at Terre Coupee, no record read for this build attests one. The…
Family grounds, and the register that stays silent
1830–2026
Beyond the named grounds, the record read for this build carries no family burying ground for Olive Township — and prints that as a tested negative at search strength, with the compiler's own warning standing beside it. The…