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What is known of Osceola's burial grounds is known through four record systems, and the leg names them so its silences can be audited. The first is the DAR's: the Schuyler Colfax Chapter's St. Joseph County cemetery records, in volumes held by the Allen County Public Library's Reynolds Historical Genealogy Collection — the third volume, which opens with the Byrkit yard, circulates in a digitized text too damaged for quotation, a defect printed wherever this section leans on it. The third is the volunteer layer — Find a Grave's cemetery 84610 for Chapel Hill, the WikiTree category, the county INGenWeb transcriptions including its "Osceola" reading — uneven, indispensable, and cited at its strength wherever used. The fourth is the keeping itself: the Penn Township trustee's statutory care of the township's abandoned and neglected grounds, framed in the Government leg, and the operator's own records at Chapel Hill. The soldiers' roll that lies across several of these grounds — the Houghton Post No. 128 G.A.R. burial roll Howard prints — is the Wars leg's document, and this section claims only the ground beneath it.
Sources
- DAR, Schuyler Colfax Chapter, St. Joseph County, Indiana Cemetery Records, vols. I–III (Reynolds Historical Genealogy Collection).
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs burial data (16 December 2022) via Interment.net.
- Find a Grave; WikiTree; St. Joseph County INGenWeb.
- Government leg (the trustee's cemetery duties).