Project Scroll Research Note 2026-53: J. M. Studebaker's entombment in the South Bend City Cemetery on 20 March 1917 and the Riverview chapel contracted in 1922

J. M. Studebaker, the last of the five brothers, was not first buried at Riverview Cemetery, where the Studebaker National Museum now places him. The South Bend News-Times reported that after private services at his home on Tuesday afternoon, 20 March 1917, "The funeral cortege passed along Jefferson blvd. to the city cemetery where the body was placed in the family mausoleum." His move was planned five years later. On 30 November 1922 the same paper reported that his executors had let a contract for "the most costly and most elaborate chapel of any so far built in South Bend cemeteries," to be built at Riverview at a cost of $75,000 to $100,000, in the Tudor Gothic style, whose marble sarcophagus would "hold the remains of the late J. M. and Mrs. Studebaker, now placed in the Studebaker mausoleum in City cemetery." Project Scroll Research Note 2026-53, version 1. The note sets out the record quoted, where it is held, what it changes, its limits, and what was searched before calling it new. Web version: projectscroll.com/discoveries/notes/2026-53/.