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Tested November 2026
No congregation-held churchyard or cemetery for any Walkerton congregation was verified in any source reached — and the negative is specific, because the town's funeral customs could easily suggest otherwise. Woodlawn serves every denomination in the obituary record — Methodist-turned-Community, Presbyterian, and Baptist funerals alike bury there — but it is held by its incorporated association, not by any church, on the official record of the Woodlawn article above. For the town's Catholic parish the test was run at every strength: no St. Patrick Cemetery at Walkerton appears in Find a Grave, in diocesan or parish sources, in the GNIS-derived data, or in the SBAGS registration keys; every "St. Patrick Cemetery" hit belonged to another Indiana place (Chesterton, in Porter County, among them). Whether Walkerton Catholics were buried in Woodlawn is plausible and is nowhere documented in the sources reached, and it is not asserted. The Morris Cemetery Association Inc of the federal register (ruling December 1991, addressed "RR 11 Box 208, Walkerton") is a burial association for the Marshall County ground in the boundary article, and shows no church holding. No cemetery evidence was reached for Koontz Lake Missionary Church, St. Dominic Mission, St. Anthony of Padua, or Teegarden First Brethren. The verdict prints as a tested negative: Walkerton's burying is association burying, in one common ground, and the parish-and-churchyard pattern of older Catholic and Lutheran settlement is absent here.
Sources
- The sources of the Woodlawn and boundary articles of this section; Religion section (parish record).
- Find a Grave cemetery search (St. Patrick Cemetery results seated at Chesterton and other places, none at Walkerton) — aggregator strength, negative.
- IRS Exempt Organizations register for ZIP 46574 via BMF-derived mirror (Morris Cemetery Association Inc, 12/1991).