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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 grounds on West Center Street (Center Street is State Road 4 in town), under shifting names, and their locations conflict three ways (C117, whole): the county record gives Eastlawn (SW ¼, Sec. 29, T36N, R1E; "also known as North Liberty Cemetery"; SR 4, 0.2 miles west of SR 23; coordinates 41.53515, −86.43128) and West Lawn (same quarter-section, same stated location line) the same printed point, with different driving directions, and cross-references "North Liberty — See: East Lawn & West Lawn"; the gazetteer line puts its Westlawn at 26945 Pierce Road (41.53539, −86.44060), about 0.9 km west of the Eastlawn point, and its Old Cemetery on West Center Street at essentially the Eastlawn point; and the federal veterans' record carries the two as separate cemeteries at successive addresses on the same street — Eastlawn at "200 W Center St" in most entries and "300 W Center St" in others, West Lawn at "700 West Center Street" — its address fields read as contact fields, not as ownership or sexton identifications. Read together, the addresses run westward along one street, consistent with two adjoining-to-nearby grounds, West Lawn the westerner — a reading, labelled as one; the grounds are not silently merged onto one point by this section. The veterans' record's earliest Eastlawn death reached is Jesse Palmer (b. 1803, d. 1865, U.S. Army) — a veterans-only floor, not the ground's — and the Westlawn partial transcription (INGenWeb, contributor-submitted, expressly partial) begins its span with twin infants of David E. and Sarah A. Platz, died 18 August and 6 October 1886, which prints against any tidy old-ground/new-ground split: the two grounds' relationship is not settled by any carrier reached. Governance prints as a tested negative at the town's own published record: the town's official site (on in.gov, crawled November 2026) was searched site-wide — no cemetery department, sexton, board, rules page, or fee schedule appears on it, no banked file assigns the ground to town board, association, or township, and no sexton for any township ground was named in any carrier reached. The governing body of the town cemetery is unsettled by every carrier reached; the settlers are the town's ordinance book and minutes and the Recorder's plat and deed books for Section 29, and the published reading of the ground as a whole is the county society's inscriptions volume (the records article below). Notable burials stand at pointer to the People register, whose own burial statements touching the town ground are exactly two: Eliza Ellen (Stroup) Sheneman (d. 5 September 1899, "buried in the North Liberty cemetery," Howard) and Susan (Leer) Irvin (d. 5 June 1907, "interred in the Liberty cemetery," Howard) — which of the township's grounds Howard's phrase names, the carrier does not further specify.
Banked The Story of North Liberty (1842, Chapman-based); SBAGS locations file; GraveRoots/GNIS; VA gravesite record (16 Dec. 2022) via Interment.net compilation (17 Apr. 2025); INGenWeb Westlawn partial transcription (sites.rootsweb.com file page); Town of North Liberty official site (in.gov), November 2026; banked Notable People.