MnSQ: Mayer Zion Lutheran Cemetery
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, and cache in, trash out. Also, please only search for cache during daylight hours.
The coordinates will bring you to the gravesite of Edward L. Zastrow. Army Private Zastrow was one of three soldiers accidentally killed during a live artillery exercise at Fort Sill. He had just turned 18.
What day was he born? Consider this AB
Way day did he die? Consider this CD
From there:
N 44.53.9(AB-10)
W 93. 53.7(CD+67)
Mayer Zion Lutheran Cemetery
This cemetery has regular care and is in good shape. It appears that many of the older burial monuments may have been replaced. The cemetery is just north of the town of Mayer, Minnesota on the East side of Carver county road 23. Just across the road, on the west side of Carver county road 23, is the Evangelical United Brethren Church Cemetery.
In the ‘Mayer Centennial 1886 - 1986’, under the section about Zion Lutheran Church, ‘ ... in 1894, a second graveyard was purchased. The first graveyard, which was located on the river road to Crow River Goose Farms, was on extremely low ground, and the bodies of the deceased were often lowered into a water filled grave. The 47 burial sites in the original cemetery were moved to the new site, the present Zion Lutheran Cemetery. Among those moved were the ten children who died in the Diptheria epidemic of 1884-1885.’
In ‘Compendium of History and Biography of Carver and Hennepin Counties, Minnesota’, written in 1919, it states: ‘Zion’s Evangelical Church was organized in 1868 and the same year the church was built on section 6 (probably Waconia township).’