Centerton Cemetery
This quest will bring you to the Centerton cemetery in Clay Township of Morgan County. This was the location of an early ISQ cache that has been archived for quite a while and this cemetery certianly needed another cache. There are veterans here from at least 6 wars, and I suspect there is a Vietnam veteran here somewhere, which would make it 7 wars. There are numerous Civil War and WW1 veterans buried here, as well as two Spanish-American war veterans. According to the cemetery records there is also a Confederate veteran here although the location of the headstone was not found.
Lemont Morgan was from Johnson County and was a member of Company C of the 3rd Indiana Infantry Regiment. Company C was known as the Johnson Company as most members were recruited from Johnson County. He served from June 1846 until June 1847. The 2nd and 3rd Indiana were participants in the decisive Battle of Buena Vista.
Burton Parker was a member of the US 4th Infantry. This was a regular US Army unit and not an Indiana volunteer regiment. The 4th was transported by boat from Tampa to Cuba where it took part in the Battle of El Craney. In this battle 500 Spansh troops held off 8000 American troops for 12 hours, preventing them from reaching San Juan Hill. Eventually the US troops prevailed and the 4th participated in the occupation of Santiago.
Lee Collins was a member of the 10th Machine Gun Battalion in the 4th Infantry Division. The 4th participated in all the major battles in France and suffered a 50% casualty rate. 10 officers and 34 enlisted men were awarded the Distinguised Service Cross.
This is a cemetery so NO NIGHT CACHING
Bring your own pen.