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to November 2026
Penn Township's burial grounds divide by the same line that divides everything in this build: the corporation line, not the postal one. The federal names record, as carried in the GNIS-based GraveRoots list for the township, names nine cemeteries in Penn: Byrkit Cemetery and Chapel Hill and Pleasant Valley Cemetery on the township's Osceola side; Eutzler Cemetery and Ferrisville Cemetery in the south; and City Cemetery, Fairview Cemetery, the Hebrew Orthodox Cemetery, and Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery at Mishawaka. The five last are the city of Mishawaka's grounds and Mishawaka's to tell whole; they enter this section at boundary size, because generations of Osceola dead rest in them. The four on Osceola's side are this section's whole: a settler family's burial yard in the west, a neighborhood ground in the northeast that shares its name with the township's second Baptist church, a twentieth-century memorial park on McKinley Highway, and — standing in the federal veterans' record under a name no other record seats — an "Osceola Cemetery" whose ground this history could not fix and does not pretend to. The records of the grounds divide the same way their keeping does: DAR readings from the 1930s-generation genealogists, the federal veterans' burial database, the volunteer transcription projects, and the county's own repositories, each named where it is used.
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- The records cited article by article below.