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Walkerton's most famous son is not buried in Walkerton, and the grave prints here at boundary size because the man is this town's: Harold Clayton Urey — born in Walkerton on 29 April 1893, Nobel laureate in Chemistry for 1934 — was raised from age six to eighteen in DeKalb County, died at La Jolla, California, in 1981, and is buried in Fairfield Cemetery at Corunna, in DeKalb County: the ground of his raising, not of his birth. The grave's record now carries a state frame: on Saturday, 9 May 2026, at 11 a.m., the Indiana Historical Bureau dedicated the state historical marker "Dr. Harold C. Urey, 1893–1981" at the entrance to Fairfield Cemetery, at the intersection of County Roads 12 and 13, Corunna — the tenth state marker in DeKalb County, sponsored by the DeKalb County Community Foundation, with the laureate's son, Dr. John Urey, in attendance; the marker's text ends, of its subject, "Urey promoted the sciences until his death and is buried in Fairfield Cemetery." The move test the checklist requires prints its result plainly: no move of the grave is known or recorded in any source reached — no reinterment, no translation, no second burial place claimed; the burial of 1981 and the marker of 2026 name the same ground, and the settler for any plot-level detail beyond the marker file is the Fairfield Cemetery record itself. Against the grave at the boundary stands the town's own marker, and the pair states the boundary rule in bronze: in Walkerton itself, at Roosevelt Road and Illinois Street, stands the Urey birthplace marker erected by American Legion Post 189 — the post's own marker, on the town's ground, for the town's fact (the birth); the Corunna marker stands on DeKalb County's ground, for DeKalb County's fact (the raising and the burial). Each town keeps the half of the life it actually holds. (The birthplace marker's inscribed name forms are carried whole in the W-11 addendum and are not re-opened here.)
Sources: Indiana Historical Bureau / Indiana State Library, dedication release for the "Dr. Harold C. Urey" state historical marker (the dedication of May 9, 2026, 11 a.m.; Fairfield Cemetery entrance, CR 12 and CR 13, Corunna, DeKalb County; the sponsor; the marker text whole, ending "is buried in Fairfield Cemetery"; Dr. John Urey's statement — raised in DeKalb County, ages six to eighteen). Fairs & Civic leg of this build (Post 189's erection of the Harold C. Urey birthplace marker at Roosevelt Road and Illinois Street). Awards and People legs of this build (the birth, 29 April 1893; the 1934 Nobel Prize; the death at La Jolla). Settler named for plot detail: the Fairfield Cemetery record.