The boundary roll: the grounds a Walkerton address does not make Walkerton's

2026

Every other ground the search surfaced belongs to another township, another county, or the federal record's own geography, and each is printed with its verdict. Morris Cemetery — postal Walkerton, with federal burials seated under "Morris Cemetery, Walkerton, IN 46574" and a Morris Cemetery Association in the federal register — stands in Polk Township, Marshall County, on the INGenWeb Marshall County reading (Morris Center Cemetery, Polk Township) and a directory seating at 15812 US-6, Plymouth: the ground is Marshall County's; the mailbox is Walkerton's. Barber Cemetery likewise stands in Polk Township, Marshall County, on the GNIS-derived list ("On West 2A Road, Walkerton, IN 46574"; GPS 41.44424, −86.42088). Porter (Rea) Cemetery, Fair Cemetery, Westlawn, and Eastlawn are Liberty Township grounds of the North Liberty frame, excluded on the GraveRoots and SBAGS seatings; Fairview is Mishawaka's. The federal record's fifth name-form gets its own verdict, printed whole and unmerged: a "Stratton Cemetery, Walkerton, IN 46574" exists only in the VA data, which files one burial under it — Jack F. Pegg, U.S. Air Force, A1C, Vietnam, 1940–2000 — while the only record-located Stratton Cemetery stands in Jefferson Township, Jay County. The entry prints at federal strength and the Jay County seating at record strength, side by side: a postal seating, a defunct family plot, or a federal data error would each explain it, and no source reached decides among them. Family and private grounds return a true negative at the layers searched: no named family burial ground in Lincoln Township appears in the SBAGS keys (which do list small family grounds in other townships of the county), the DAR volumes as searchable, the GNIS-derived data, or the state heritage-cemetery list — whose St. Joseph County entries are Byrkit, Hamilton Church, Mount Pleasant, and South Bend City, none in Lincoln Township. A "Lincoln Township Cemetery" as a named ground was not found anywhere; no cemetery in the township's Kankakee bottoms was named in any layer reached.

Sources

1. INGenWeb, Marshall County cemetery readings (Morris Center Cemetery, Polk Township); directory seating, Morris Cemetery, 15812 US-6, Plymouth.
2. GraveRoots (GNIS-derived): Polk Township, Marshall County (Barber Cemetery); Liberty Township list (Porter-Rea, Fair, Westlawn, Eastlawn); Jay County (Stratton Cemetery, Jefferson Township).
4. Interment.net VA data (Morris seatings; Stratton seating — Pegg) — official record (federal) as to the entries, anomaly as printed.
5. Indiana Historical Bureau, Find an Indiana Heritage Cemetery — North Region (St. Joseph County entries) — official list, negative for Lincoln Township.