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1907 · Howard, from the records of Houghton Post No. 128, G.A.R.
What it is: Howard's Roll of Honor is arranged by cemetery, and its Penn Township section is headed "BURIED IN PENN TOWNSHIP CEMETERIES. Roll of Honor of Houghton Post No. 128, G. A. R., Department of Indiana." It is a burial roll — soldiers of all wars, principally the Civil War, whose bodies lie in Penn Township cemeteries as the Mishawaka post recorded them — and most of the men on it survived their war and died at home. It is counted here entry by entry from the transcription: 247 printed name entries, in three alphabetical runs (88, then 106, then 53). Because the post sat in Mishawaka, the roll takes in Mishawaka-city cemeteries as well as the township's own, and the transcription preserves no cemetery sub-headings inside the section — so the Osceola-ground burials cannot be separated from the Mishawaka burials on this text, and the printed page image (Howard, vol. 1, pp. 734–735) is the named settler for that separation. A true Penn Township roll of the war dead does not exist in either county history; the 1894 county list of veterans, widows and orphans, taken township by township, is its named settler in the closing register.
The names this section has already met, standing in the roll: Capt. Jas. Houghton; Capt. J. M. Holliday; Daniel Judie; Henry S. Plumb; John H. Quigg; Solomon Michael; Lieut. Seth B. Parks; Capt. J. M. Pettit; Capt. Wm. H. Cresswell; Daniel Hollingshead — the first settler's son, of the Hollingshead family carried in the People file; Barnett Byrkit, of the settler Byrkits; Marion McKnight, of the section-11 McKnights; and Mahlon Auten, kept separate from John Auten by the rule stated above. The roll as printed runs from William F. Allen and John Cooper through Jacob Fritz; its full 247 stand in Howard, pp. 734–735, and are not reprinted whole here, because the roll is the township's — including its city — and not this town's to absorb entire.
Sources:
- Howard, Ch. XIV §2, pp. 731, 734–735 — counted and characterized.