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For a county whose Catholic history runs from the 1840s, the absence is itself a finding, and it is printed as one. No Catholic parish has been found seated in the town of Osceola or in Penn Township in any record — not in Chapman's church list, not in the genealogical society's index, not in the modern directories. Chapman's Catholic entry for the township's orbit is St. Joseph's at Mishawaka, organized 1848, and the township's Catholic families' sacramental course — baptisms, marriages, burials — runs through the Mishawaka and South Bend parishes whose registers the county's genealogical collections hold; those registers, and the parishes' own histories, are Mishawaka's and South Bend's to tell, and this section carries the boundary at pointer size. The diocese line above the parishes is likewise carried at pointer size in the present-state article.
Sources
- Chapman (1880), church lists for Penn Township and Mishawaka (St. Joseph's, Mishawaka, organized 1848).