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6 <br />The Cleveland /Lynnwood Cemetery was the original burial place <br />of another Union Army soldier, Prosper Wagner, son of William and <br />Sarah (Nichols) Wagner. The St. Joseph Valley Register, an early <br />South Bend publication, lists Prosper in its August 28, 1862 <br />paper as a volunteer soldier with the 20th Indiana Battery from <br />St. Joseph County. A local history text [9] gives the account of <br />Prosper's illness and stay at a Nashville field hospital until <br />the end of the war, at which time he returned home only to die <br />four weeks later. <br />Prosper's remains were reinterred to Riverview Cemetery in <br />1908. <br />Elder David and Louisa (0'Conner) Miller settled in German <br />Township in 1839. Elder David (no apparent relation to Miller <br />brothers previouly mentioned) was born in Northumberland County, <br />Pennsylvania in July of 1806; he was a farmer by trade as well as <br />a D_unkard (German Baptist) minister. Louisa was born in August <br />of 1807. They had seven children, two of whom died in early <br />childhood and are buried in the Cleveland /Lynnwood Cemetery. One <br />of the markers, that of their, daughter Maria, predates their <br />arrival to St. Joseph County as documented by a local history <br />text [10]. Either the marker is honorary in nature or the <br />printed account of Miller's arrival to the region is inaccurate. <br />Louisa died prematurely in March of 1843. Within the next <br />two years, Elder David remarried to Catherine Keltner, who was 18 <br />years his junior. They had nine children by their marriage. One <br />of their sons, Daniel C., died in early childhood and is buried <br />at the Cleveland /Lynnwood Cemetery. Elder David died November of <br />1876, Catherine in 1890. Grave markers are still visible for <br />Elder David, Louisa, and Catherine. <br />{ <br />