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 Townships (SBAGS, 1992) — attested by the Historical Bureau's own citation of it for Porter-Rea — with a surname index standing on the society's site; it was not itself opened and is the print settler for the township's readings as a whole. The older DAR series is a separate, earlier work — the Schuyler Colfax Chapter's St. Joseph County, Indiana Cemetery Records — and neither series' Liberty contents were opened here. The deepest single stratum is the WPA's: the University of Notre Dame Archives' county collection includes a list of grave plots in St. Joseph County compiled in 1939 by the WPA and a WPA listing of male burials in the county's cemeteries (1939), with grave and lot numbers, notation of military service, typescript cemetery histories preceding some listings, and directions preceding most — a named settler for Inks and Snell above all. Online, exactly two free readings for Liberty grounds were found: the INGenWeb Westlawn partial listing and the INGenWeb St. John's full row reading, with a photo-based partial of St. John's as a third; no online transcription for Eastlawn, Fair, Porter-Rea (beyond the 1992 volume in print), Snell, or Inks was found — searched negatives at search strength. Ground by ground, the working records live: the town complex — unsettled; Porter-Rea — the association's lot records; St. John's — the congregation's ground, read in print and online; Fair — no records location named by any carrier reached; Inks — no records exist; Snell — none named. And sextons: none named for any ground in any carrier reached — the veterans' record's telephone numbers are funeral-home and cemetery contact fields, and print only as such.

IHB citations of SBAGS Inscriptions Vol. 1 (1992); LDSGenealogy and archive.org listings for the DAR series; Notre Dame Archives, Saint Joseph County (Ind.) Records (SJO) finding aid (WPA stratum); INGenWeb and GenealogyTrails readings as cited article by article.