Burial grounds and communal institutions — the religious institutions between the congregations

1830 – present

Three grounds carry this township's religion in common. The oldest is congregation ground: the Hamilton Church Cemetery at Hamilton, established 1830 with the Methodist society itself, entered in the Indiana Cemetery and Burial Grounds Registry and marked by the Indiana Historical Bureau in 2013 — the Methodist church is gone, its burying ground remains, and the cemeteries leg owns the ground itself. Olive Chapel Cemetery is likewise congregation ground in origin — the Christians' chapel ground on section 11 — and its present holding body is the township: Olive Township's official page states that "Olive Township manages the Olive Chapel Cemetery located at 57100 Timothy Road (just south of Bendix Woods County Park)." A conflict on the ground's road prints whole: a USGS-derived cemetery listing places Olive Chapel Cemetery "on Marshall Road, New Carlisle, IN 46552," at 41.66084, −86.50649. Both road names stand as their sources give them. The town's own ground is a civil institution: the same township page states that "the New Carlisle Cemetery, 802–890 West Michigan Street, is managed by the Town of New Carlisle" — the holding-body line this section prints; the ground itself belongs to the cemeteries leg. Howard prints, from the Indianapolis News, the township's soldier burials across these grounds — ten War of 1812 veterans at Hamilton, four in Olive Chapel Cemetery, two in the New Carlisle Cemetery, and two at Maple Grove. Among living communal institutions, the Methodist congregation's food pantry serves the town, and St. Stanislaus Kostka's parish school — first in the old wooden church, then in the purchased No. 5 schoolhouse until 1925, and reopened in 1995 — is the township's one parochial school line; the Methodist Collegiate Institute of 1859 stands in the Methodist article above as the denomination's educational institution.

Sources

1. Olive Township official site (in.gov/townships/olive71), cemeteries page — the holding bodies and the Timothy Road address.
2. GraveRoots, Olive Chapel Cemetery listing (USGS-derived) — the Marshall Road line and coordinates.
3. Howard (1907), vol. 1, p. 309 — the soldier burials, quoting the Indianapolis News.
4. Indiana Historical Bureau / HMdb — the Hamilton Church Cemetery registry and 2013 marker.