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The Cemeteries
Liberty Township keeps its dead in seven grounds by the county record's count — or four by the federal gazetteer's — and the disagreement is this section's first fact. Between the two counts stand a town cemetery dated to 1842 whose founding act no carrier reached can name, an integrated neighbourhood ground inside a state park that predates its own deed, the township's one proven churchyard, a family ground whose stones and records are both gone, and another reduced to a single stone in the woods. this section works every ground whole: what founded it, what records it, who governs it — and where the record runs out, which is often, it prints the settler's name instead of a guess.
The count, in conflict (C116): seven grounds against four
SBAGS AGAINST THE FEDERAL GAZETTEER LINE — PRINTED WHOLE
Two county-level carriers name this township's grounds, and they do not agree. The South Bend Area Genealogical Society's St. Joseph County Cemetery Locations — the county record, first printed in the society's Quarterly in…
The town cemetery complex: Eastlawn, West Lawn, "Old"
DATED 1842 IN THE SPINE; LOCATIONS IN CONFLICT (C117); GOVERNANCE UNSETTLED
The banked spine dates "the town cemetery" to 1842, among the town's first things — and no carrier reached names who laid it out, a first burial of that year, or a founding act. What the record actually carries is a pair of…
Porter-Rea Cemetery: the township's documented ground
FOUNDING IN CONFLICT (C118): THE 1854 DEED AGAINST BURIALS FROM 1845
Porter-Rea is the fullest cemetery file in the township — and its two official carriers date its beginning nine years apart. The ground (NE ¼, Sec. 25, T36N, R1E, inside Potato Creek State Park on SR 4; the county record's…
Fair Cemetery
ACTIVE INTO THE PRESENT CENTURY; FOUNDING UNDOCUMENTED; A BOUNDARY CONFLICT (C125)
Fair Cemetery is a working ground whose founding no carrier reached documents. The county record places it (NE ¼, Sec. 18, T35N, R2E) on the west side of Oak Road just north of Stanton Road, southwest of Lakeville (41.48677…
Saint John's Lutheran Cemetery: the township's one church ground
HEADED "EST. 1865"; THE SHENEMAN DATES IN CONFLICT (C119); SETTLES HALF OF G-RL-14
At the northeast corner of Riley and Pine Roads, at the same corner as the present St. The county record places it (SW ¼, Sec. 6, T35N, R2E; 41.50747, −86.35066), and the St. Joseph County INGenWeb page carries a full row-by-row…
Inks Family Cemetery: the township's lost ground
STONES AND RECORDS BOTH GONE — THE COUNTY RECORD'S OWN WORDS
The county record's whole entry is the finding, and it is printed as the record prints it. Inks Family Cemetery: Liberty Township; N ½, Sec. 22, T36N, R1E; a farm on the northwest corner of Liberty Trail and New Road (41.56381…
Snell Family / Snell-Miller Cemetery: one stone
ONE STONE SURVIVING IN 2017
The township's second family ground stands at the edge of the same loss. The county record's whole entry: NW ¼, Sec. 4, T35N, R1E; "Only one stone was surviving in 2017. West side of Sage Rd. and Quinn Rd., North Liberty, IN. Sits on hill in woods about 400 ft south of Quinn Rd. & about 70 ft. west of Sage Rd."; private property (41.51904, −86.41796). The name's double form stands as the record prints it. No transcription of the surviving stone was reached, no founding date, no burial list. Settlers, in the note: the inscriptions volume if it reads the ground, the WPA 1939 list, and a field reading of the stone itself.
SBAGS, St. Joseph County Cemetery Locations, entry as printed.
The records regime: where this township's dead are written down
THE 1992 VOLUME, THE DAR SERIES, THE WPA STRATUM OF 1939
Three published strata carry this township's stones, and they are not to be conflated. The working reading is the county society's: St. Joseph County, Indiana Cemetery Inscriptions, Vol. 1, covering Greene, Liberty, and Lincoln…
The churchyard tests: one positive, the rest negative
EACH CONGREGATION TESTED; BOUNDARY ITEMS KEPT OUT
St. John's Lutheran is the township's only church ground (above); every other congregation tested carries none. Catholic: negative — no Catholic church, mission, or parish has stood in town or township in any era searched (the…