Sleeping Souls \\ Stones of Old Baden Traditional Cache
Hidden : 4/29/2012
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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This piece of ground was conveyed to Nicholaus Klein and Peter Spehnler (Spenler) by the trustees of school section number 13 (John Erb the younger, Christian S. Miller and John Gascho, Jacob Kropf the elder and Magdalena Kropf) for the sum of two dollars. The deed was registered at 2:30 p.m. on 27 January 1866.

This burial ground was to be for the use of all denominations of Christians. The residents within three miles were to convene and replace trustees as needed. Christian Maier (Mayer) signed the affidavit for the signatures of the above. Commissioner was A J Peterson. The stones in the cemetery were read in September 1978 by Lorraine Roth and Ruby Hammer. For about forty years, this cemetery was the primary burial place for Baden residents.

A Historical Atlas of Waterloo and Wellington Counties, by H. Parsell and Co., dated 1881-1877, shows the location of the cemetery. There may, once, have been a church beside this burial ground. No records identify the church, however.

The Township of Wilmot did some work at the Snyder's Road cemetery in the late 1950's or early 1960's but didn't continue to maintain it on a regular basis. Baden resident Norman Haufschild, former Township of Wilmot Road Superintendent, recalls when the work was done on the area. Mr. Gardener, who lived by the Baden pond, said Haufschild, was hired to bring his horse in and pull out the many small trees and brush that had grown up around the tombstones which, by then, were virtually hidden. At the same time, the tombstones were piled up and the ground levelled. No record was kept, however, of where the graves were that the stones marked.

The tombstones were stacked in a pile, more than half way back on the property, almost invisible from the road. Several of these tombstones are in poor repair, some broken to the point that names and dates are no longer visible. Since they no longer mark specific graves, there is no way of determining where the bodies are buried.

Other pioneer cemeteries in Wilmot Township have had work done to maintain them - including putting stones back up and repairing others. Nothing had been done to the Baden cemetery.

In 2010 a memorial stone was erected to mark the site of the cemetery and to record the names of those who are believed to be buried there.

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