"Osceola Cemetery" — the name in the federal record, the ground unseated

the record as of November 2026

The Department of Veterans Affairs' burial record knows an Osceola Cemetery at Osceola, Indiana 46561 — and no other record can put it on the ground. The federal entries are specific and modern: Glen E. Stevenson, a Marine corporal of the Second World War, died 5 January 2000; Howard D. Grove, a Navy ship's cook, died 23 September 1995; Robert R. Losher, an Army Air Forces private first class, died 30 April 2000; Harold W. Bieck, an Army technician, died 10 June 2008; James A. The Swathwood entry carries a contact line through the town's funeral home: care of Palmer Funeral Home, 1109 Lincolnway West, Osceola. Two further entries in the same federal data misaddress the same cemetery name to "Elkhart, IN 46516" — Milton Dinerboiler Jr., died 3 July 1953, and Howard V. Stone, died 25 July 1996 — a directory conflict this section prints and does not resolve. Against that named, dated, populated record stands the silence of every other class: "Osceola Cemetery" is not among the nine Penn Township grounds of the federal names record; it is not in the DAR readings; no volunteer transcription project seats it under that name — though the county INGenWeb site's update log records names added to an "Osceola" cemetery transcription in 2006, a page this history could not open — and a cemetery of that name does stand in one other index, in Baugo Township, Elkhart County, just across the county line that the Osceola postal code also crosses. The candidates are therefore three, and the leg prints them as candidates: the federal name is the town name of the Pleasant Valley ground; or it is a distinct small ground no survey reached; or the federal record gathered burials from the Baugo Township ground under the postal town's name.

Sources

1. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs burial data, as republished by Interment.net (data of 16 December 2022) — the seven Osceola-addressed entries and the two Elkhart-addressed entries.
2. GraveRoots, Penn Township list (the name's absence from the GNIS nine).
3. Kosciusko County INGenWeb surrounding-counties cemetery index (an "Osceola" cemetery in Baugo Township, Elkhart County).
4. St. Joseph County INGenWeb update log, 2006 (name additions to an "Osceola" transcription).