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“INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST”
The Indiana Spirit Quest series of
geocaches will take you to a number of historic cemeteries and
historic sites built by Hoosier Pioneers. In just over two
years, the quest has grown to over five hundred caches hidden in
Indiana, Ohio and Michigan and Ontario and the hiders have grown to
THIRTY cacher teams, most of which are comprised of Dogs and
their Humans. Over 1,000 cacher teams have
logged over 20,500 finds. .
Photos by jcurtis55
INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST
#579
"Collier Cemetery"
This quest will bring you to the Collier
Cemetery in Washington Township of Monroe County. This is a family
cemetery but has been well maintained and is in wonderful
condition. It's not an extreemly old cemetery, with the earliest
burials from late in the 19th century. However, there are actually
more burial spots marked with field stones than there are engraved
headstones. It is impossible to know just how old the field stones
are.
Civil War Officer
James Henry Collier has the only military stone in the cemetery.
He is a 4th great uncle of mine. He went by Henry. He was a 2nd
Lieutenant in the 33rd Indiana. This regiment started the war badly
and was captured almost in total during their first major action at
the Battle of Thompson's Station in Tennessee. After the regiment
was paroled and returned to service, they were given menial guard
duty and kept out of the front lines. They got their chance for
vendication in 1864 when they took part in Sherman's campaign in
the south and subsequent march to the sea. Soldiers from the 33rd
Indiana were amongst the first to enter Atlanta after it was
abandoned by the Confederates.
Unmarked Field Stones
This cemetery has about 25 engraved headstones and about 30
graves marked with simple field stones. As someone who is a
descendant of the Colliers from this area, it's a bit frustrating
to not know who might be buried in these graves.
The cache container is A
CAMOUFLAGED PRESCRIPTION BOTTLE. You MUST sign the log to claim
a Smiley. 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.
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