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by jcurtis55
INDIANA
SPIRIT QUEST #547
"Stierwalt Cemetery"
This quest will bring you to the Stierwalt
Cemetery in Ray Township of Morgan County. While this cemetery only
consists of a couple of acres, it has over 150 graves in that area.
Be careful when visiting this cemetery as there is just enough room
to get a single car off the side of the road. The cemetery includes
a pioneer, Elijah Walters, who moved to Indiana from Kentucky in
1817 and several Civil War veterans. You will find veterans here
from the 25th, 29th, 33rd, and 70th Indiana regiments, as well as
the 12th Michigan. Not uncommon in these old cemeteries, there are
lots of child and infant graves here. One of the Stierwalt families
have four young children buried here. It makes you wonder how the
families dealt with this amount of tragedy.
He Almost Made It
Noah Bowman was a member of the 29th Indiana Infantry regiment.
It appears he nearly survived the Civil War only to die in
Chatanooga Tennesse where the regiment had been performing garrison
duty. He died on March 14, 1865, a mear 26 days prior to the
surrender at Appomattix Courthouse.
Civil War Veteran
Based on the size of these monuments, life after the Civil War
must have went well for Levi Voshell and his wife. Levi served in
the 25th Indiana Infantry and saw action at Fort Donelson, shiloh,
Corinth and Atlanta.
FIND LOGS ON THIS CACHE THAT INDICATE
NIGHT CACHING WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT
NOTICE!!
The cache container
is A CAMOUFLAGED PRESCRIPTION BOTTLE. You MUST sign the log
to claim a Smilie. If you cache at night, or don't sign
the log, or reveal the additional hint in your log, or don't
fulfill any additional requirements, your find log will be
deleted without notice...If you think these terms to be
unfair, don't bother to hunt this cache. The cache is not
located near a grave... If you find a fallen US flag, please
stick it back in the ground. As always, please be respectful
of our pioneer dead and cache in, trash
out.
None genuine without this official SixDogTeam
seal. Photographs taken by Lead Dog, (C) 2006 by RikSu Outfitters,
unless otherwise noted.
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