1898: the war this ground does not appear in

1898 – 1899

The county's regiment was the 157th Indiana Volunteer Infantry — "Studebaker's Tigers," mustered in 10 May 1898 under Col. George M. Studebaker of South Bend, its companies raised at Knox, Elkhart, South Bend and other northern-Indiana towns; no company was raised at Mishawaka or Osceola. The state's own roster volume — the Record of Indiana Volunteers in the Spanish-American War, issued by Adjutant-General James K. Gore in 1900 — was searched in full text for this section: the residence string "Osceola" does not occur anywhere in the volume. "Mishawaka" occurs five times as a residence in the 157th's rosters (boundary; the roster tables' layout in text form does not permit reliable name-by-name attribution of those five, and the printed roster pages are the settler). Howard's Spanish-American burial list stands under City Cemetery, South Bend — Albert Frame, Henry Herring Jr., Harry O. Perkins, John Smith, Clarence A. Wade, Norman Eddy Weldon — none placed in a Penn Township cemetery and none in the Penn burial roll. The finding, with its limit printed: no Penn Township man of Osceola ground is visible in the Spanish-American War record as the county record reaches; Gore records residence by town and post office, not by township, so a Penn farm man would appear under "Mishawaka" or "South Bend," and the company descriptive books are the settler named in the closing register.

Sources:

1. Gore (Adjutant-General), Record of Indiana Volunteers in the Spanish-American War 1898–1899 (1900) — full-text search of the volume.
2. Howard, Roll of Honor, p. 732 (Spanish-American burial list).