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 Religion section — whose chapel of 1869 stood on the section 11 side of the township's south-central country. The congregation survives: it worships today as Olive Chapel Church at 32987 State Road 2, in what it calls a New Era. The ground, however, has passed to civil keeping. Olive Township's own cemeteries page states the present arrangement in plain terms: "Olive Township manages the Olive Chapel Cemetery located at 57100 Timothy Road (just south of Bendix Woods County Park)," with further information at the township trustee's office — the trustee being, under Indiana's township system, the officer charged with the township's cemeteries. The same page carries the township's cemetery rules. That is the ground's present course at its holder's own strength: a congregation ground in origin, a township charge in 2026.

Its address carries a conflict, and both sides print. The township seats the ground at 57100 Timothy Road, south of Bendix Woods County Park. The USGS-derived cemetery listing seats an Olive Chapel Cemetery "on Marshall Road, New Carlisle, IN 46552," at 41.66084, −86.50649 — a point in the township's southern tier, consistent in country with the Timothy Road seat but on a different road name, and the two records are carried unmerged: a road-name conflict between the holder's own page and the federal-derived list, of the kind that only the county's parcel and road records settle. The ground's dead begin, in the record read, with the four War of 1812 burials of the county history's distribution — four men buried here whom no record read for this build names, the Olive Chapel share of GAP-NC4-1812-1, whose settler stands in the closing article. Beyond them, the ground's own early register was not reached at inscription strength: the DAR chapter's inscription volumes are its seat, and the reading of this ground at that seat is banked as part of the same want. The ground is in present use: the federal gravesite file carries modern veteran burials under this ground's name, which this section prints at that file's strength — federal-file presence, not a register — while the ground's own roll remains the inscription record and the trustee's books.

Sources

1. Olive Township, official site, cemeteries page (in.gov/townships/olive71/cemeteries) — the township's management statement and the Timothy Road address, read first-hand.
2. GraveRoots, Olive Chapel Cemetery listing (USGS-derived) — the Marshall Road address and coordinates, printed as the conflicting carrier.
3. Howard (1907), from the Indianapolis News — the four War of 1812 burials.
4. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs gravesite file, as compiled in the public interment listings — modern veteran burials under the ground's name, at aggregator strength.
5. This build's Churches & Religion (article nc-rel-olive-chapel) — the congregation's course and the site-continuity caveat this section adopts.