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Before 1926–2026
Walkerton has exactly one burial ground in its whole frame, and its name is Woodlawn. The ground stands at the town's southwest edge, south of U.S. Joseph County — and it is held not by the town and not by any church but by an incorporated association of its own lot owners, as it has been since 19 July 1926. The pioneer books name no cemetery at all: Chapman's Lincoln Township chapter and sketches, read entire for this build, mention none, and Howard's township section none — the ground enters the written record through the law reports of 1933, the federal veterans' data, and the 1939 graves registration, and this section prints it at those strengths. The name discipline comes first, because the error is live in every search engine: every record found for a "Walkerton Cemetery" — a Cemetery Road address, GPS coordinates at 44.1164383, −81.1450023, Commonwealth War Graves burials of Canadian soldiers — belongs to Walkerton, Ontario, Canada, and is excluded from the Indiana record entire. The township roll is equally disciplined at its edges: the GNIS-derived public data seats zero cemeteries in Lincoln Township, a coverage gap this section prints as a gap and not as an absence, since Woodlawn demonstrably stands there unlisted; and the two grounds that carry Walkerton postal addresses nearest the township's southeast — Morris and Barber — stand in Polk Township, Marshall County, on the sourced seatings printed in the boundary article below.
Sources
- Paul et al. v. Walkerton Woodlawn Cemetery Association, 204 Ind. 693, 184 N.E. 537 (Ind.
- Chapman (1880), Lincoln Township chapter and sketches, and Howard (1907), vol. 1, pp. 290–291 — no cemetery named (negative, first-hand read).
- GraveRoots (GNIS-derived), Indiana index: Lincoln Township listed with no cemeteries in the public data.
- Census geocoder point test, Woodlawn Cemetery directory coordinates (41.468995, −86.493174): Walkerton town, Lincoln Township, St. Joseph County, 11 November 2026.