The original Colorado Spirit Quest #6 - Horn Cemetery GC146TX was archived on April 29, 2019. I am keeping this one going by placing a new container in a slightly different spot and with the permission of the CSQ "manager" Joe Friday.
History of the Cemetery: Deer Creek Cemetery/Horn Cemetery (1875) The 1875 interment of Robert S. Kelso is the oldest known burial at Deer Creek/Horn Cemetery (5PA.376) at Deer Creek, located along U.S. Highway 285 3.1 miles northeast of Bailey. Deer Creek postmaster Leonard Alkire received a patent for the land containing the cemetery in 1878. Peter O. and Melissa Horn subsequently acquired the land and sold it to Deer Creek Fishing and Boating Association (predecessor of Deer Valley Park Association) in 1887. In the same year, the Association deeded approximately one acre containing the cemetery to Park County but continued maintaining the burial ground and enclosed it with a barbed wire fence about 1900. 66 Obituaries appearing in local newspapers in the early twentieth century referred to this graveyard as Deer Creek Cemetery. 67 According to Park County cemetery historian Harold Warren it received the name Horn Cemetery “because there are more members of the Horn family buried in marked graves than of any other family.”68 Burials at the site declined after the 1910s. Still in active use, the cemetery includes an estimated two hundred burials, with a fairly large proportion being more recent graves.
"COLORADO SPIRIT QUEST"
The Colorado Spirit Quest is a series of Caches started in 2008. Placed by many individuals, near cemeteries and historic sites in hopes of paying respect to the many pioneer ancestors that have 'walked' before us. There are hundreds of cemeteries in the rural and mountain communities across Colorado. This series will introduce you to many of them. The cache pages will provide a virtual history tour of the cemeteries and tombstones.
The Colorado Spirit Quest endeavor is an enormous and relentless task. It cannot be accomplished by just one or two people. This project will only flourish if there is a multitude of volunteer cachers willing to place these caches.
After locating the cache container, take some time to reflect back on the lives of those pioneers and the effort it took to make Colorado such a great state.
If you are interested in placing a "Colorado Spirit Quest" you should contact Ivy Dog Parents or Joe Friday.
Each person that places a Colorado Spirit Quest cache is responsible for its maintenance.