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Five of Penn Township's nine federal grounds stand at its west end, in and for Mishawaka, and they are that city's to tell whole. City Cemetery and Fairview Cemetery, the Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery, and the Hebrew Orthodox Cemetery, all seated in Mishawaka at the township's western edge, took the burials of the whole township's west side for a century and a half — including, as the Wars leg's reading of Howard's Houghton Post burial roll shows, a large share of the township's Civil War generation, whose graves Howard's roll locates in Mishawaka cemeteries again and again. Osceola families with west-side ties rest there in every generation; the grounds' foundings, associations, sextons, and records are carried whole in the Mishawaka build's cemeteries treatment, and this section's boundary discipline keeps its telling to this pointer rather than duplicating a sister city's ground.
Sources
- GraveRoots, Penn Township list (the five Mishawaka-seated grounds).
- Wars leg (Howard's Houghton Post No. 128 burial roll and its Mishawaka cemetery locations).
- The Mishawaka build (the grounds' whole courses).