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SBAGS Cemetery Locations; Howard (1907) I, p. 288 and the obituary carriers of 1916 and 1928; History of the Church of the Brethren in Indiana (1952), district-history strength
The ground is listed by the genealogical society as Ullery, Clay Township, NW ¼ of Section 25, T38N R2E, on Cleveland Road just east of IN-933, under its own name and three community names — "(Also known as Community, Little Cemetery on the Hill, Roseland Community Cemetery)." It is the burying ground of the township's one historic church: Chapman's German Baptist congregation, whose building stood on Section 24, erected in 1868 — the cemetery on Section 25 "near the German Baptist church" in Chapman's own cemetery list. The spelling seam is the record's own and prints as carried: the county books' settler family is Ulery; the ground and the church of the obituaries are Ullery.
The church's course is now settledThe Brethren district history (1952) carries the congregation whole: a meeting-house "two miles north of South Bend," the first meeting-house of the mother St. Joseph congregation, "sometimes known as the Ulery Church"; on 29 January 1881 the congregation was organized out of the mother church as St. Joseph Valley, John Wrightsman chosen pastor, Peter Cripe, Thomas Longley, Joseph Ulery Sr. and Joseph Ulery Jr. among its deacons; and it "continued only until 1921 when it was disorganized," its members transferred to the two churches in South Bend and its territory reverting to the mother church. Howard's 1868 date is the building's; 1881 is the congregation's organization under its own name; 1921 is its end — three dates, three referents, no conflict among them. The district history's text was reached in a transcription whose carrier flags its own generation from the book; its page images are the settler for page-image strength, and the finding stands at district-history strength as stated.
The burials outlasted the church. At obituary strength: Susan Wells, 1916 — her funeral held "from the Ullery church, Rev Cripe officiating," burial in the Ullery cemetery (South Bend News-Times, 23 October 1916); Permelia (Longley) Greenwood, 1928 — "Burial will be at the Ullery cemetery, north of Roseland," the Rev. Clyde Forney of South Bend's First Church of the Brethren officiating (South Bend Tribune, 7 February 1928) — a South Bend pastor burying a township woman in the township ground seven years after the congregation's end, which is what a community burying ground is. At pointer strength, a family compilation carries two DePeel infants into the ground in 1930 and 1934. What is not proven prints just as plainly: the cemetery's own founding (no deed and no earliest-stone date was reached — the society's published reading of the ground and the county deed records for the NW ¼ of Section 25 are the settlers, G-CEM-1); its keeper after 1921 (no association, trustee, or successor church is named by any carrier reached — the community names above are consistent with community keeping and name no keeper; the township trustee's records and the state registry entry are the settlers, G-CEM-2); and its present condition (a places aggregator labels it "Active" — aggregator strength only). Its plotted place is likewise unsettled at the precision the carriers offer: three coordinate pairs stand in the record — 41.72296, −86.24864 (the federal-map-derived listing), 41.72244, −86.24972 (the society's list), 41.723037, −86.248512 (the places aggregator) — all on the same Cleveland Road parcel area, printed whole and unmerged (C53), with the GNIS feature record as settler (G-CEM-3). And its oldest question is settled by the very instrument this paragraph named as its settler — the town boundary record against the parcel record, executed in the land-records pass (R-8, rl-lr8-ullery): the Census Bureau's current town polygon contains all three coordinate pairs above, each inside the north edge (by 17.8, 76.0 and 9.2 metres), and the parcel at the federal coordinate is the cemetery's own — parcel 71-03-25-126-003.000-007, "142 Cleveland Road," carried with tax city "ROSELAND CIVIL TOWN." The 1928 carrier says "north of Roseland," the society places it in the township, the postal address says Roseland — all true, and none of them a boundary survey; the survey now stands, and the ground prints as what it is: the town's burying ground inside its northern edge. The three pairs still disagree among themselves and stand unmerged (C53); the settlement closes the ground's placement, not their disagreement.