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 only two. The congregation ground is Hamilton Church Cemetery, laid out with the Methodist society of 1830 at the township's first center. The township ground is Olive Chapel Cemetery, born as the Christians' chapel ground on section 11 and held today by Olive Township itself. The town ground is the New Carlisle Cemetery on West Michigan Street, a department of the town government in 2026, with its own board, its own ordinance, and a published fee schedule. Two more grounds stand in the record at lesser strength: Maple Grove, which survives in a single sentence of a county history's soldier-burial distribution, its seat never established; and the parish ground at Terre Coupee, where the test run in this section found no cemetery attested for St. Stanislaus parish in the records read, and prints the question as an open one rather than an answer. Against those five, the coverage of the federal lists is printed here as the gap it is: the township's reference geography, built on United States Geological Survey data, names exactly one cemetery for the whole township — Olive Chapel — and the GNIS-derived cemetery listing for the township carries two. Both lists miss Hamilton, miss the town's own ground as a township entry, and miss Maple Grove whole. A coverage gap in a federal list is a fact about the list, not about the ground, and this section prints it that way.

The name-level record of who lies in these grounds stands where the earlier passes put it: the soldier stones and the township's first families in Notable People and Wars & Military Service, dug from the inscription readings of the Schuyler Colfax Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, whose cemetery inscriptions for this county, copied about 1900 and published in three volumes, are the register's seat for every old ground in the township. One standing want rides through the whole file: the county history's distribution of the township's War of 1812 burials names ten men at Hamilton and leaves the eight buried in the other grounds — four at Olive Chapel, two in the New Carlisle Cemetery, two at Maple Grove — unnamed in every record read for this build. That want is carried from the people pass as GAP-NC4-1812-1, and its settler is named again in the closing article below.

Sources

1. Olive Township, official site, cemeteries page (in.gov/townships/olive71) — the township's own statement of which grounds it manages and of the town's management of its ground, read first-hand.
2. Town of New Carlisle, cemetery department page and Ordinance #1504 (2026) — the town ground's present holder and governing instrument, read first-hand.
3. Olive Township reference geography (United States Geological Survey data, GNIS feature 453688) — the federal-derived township record: one cemetery named, four unincorporated places named.
4. GraveRoots, Olive Township cemetery listing (USGS-derived) — two cemeteries carried for the township, with the compiler's own warning that small private and family grounds may not appear in public records.
5. Howard, Timothy Edward (1907), A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana — the soldier-burial distribution, from the Indianapolis News account.
6. This build's Churches & Religion and Notable People — the congregation courses and the name-level burial record this section points to and does not repeat.