The church and the burial grounds of the township

Chapman (1880), p. 677; Howard (1907) I, p. 288; the Ullery Cemetery at modern carrier strength

One congregation stood in the township's own ground. Chapman: "There is only one church in Clay township besides the Catholic… It is a German Baptist organization, and the church building is located on section 24. It was erected in 1868 by means of individual donations. The first pastors of the church were Jacob Cripe and Christian Wenger. The present pastor is John B. Wrightsman." Howard agrees and carries the line of pastors forward. The Catholic churches stood at Notre Dame and St. Mary's, on the township's eastern edge — institutions of the township's ground but not of its farm settlement, and carried in their own files. Chapman names the township's three public cemeteries of his day: "one on section 25 near the German Baptist church; one on section 30, known as the Township Cemetery, and another in connection with Notre Dame University." A fourth ground touches the town itself and is carried at the strength its carriers give it: the Ullery Cemetery, on West Cleveland Road at Roseland's northern side in the modern place listings — a family ground of the Ulery/Ullery name, sighted in print as early as a South Bend Tribune item of 7 February 1928 recording a burial "at the Ullery cemetery, north of Roseland" (carried by a family-history page citing the Tribune and a grave-registration memorial; the ground's own course belongs to the cemeteries pass). The township's dead of the settlement era lie in these grounds and in farm plots like the Harrises' behind the mill; of the grounds named here, one — the Ullery Cemetery — stands inside the town's bounds, as the land-records pass (R-8) settled on the town boundary and parcel records (rl-lr8-ullery); and the cemeteries leg takes the grounds whole from here.