Far right of John & Ida VanDyke Traditional Cache
Far right of John & Ida VanDyke
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Drive down lane to find Collier Cemetary. John & Ida Van Dyke were my great great grandparents. Should be quick & easy find.
Info on Collier Cemetary from Bad Majec:
While the Titus family's monument dominates this scene, the Blakes, Brumfields, Hankins, Judds, Judges, Riggs, and Wiseharts--pioneer families who helped settled the southeast part of Madison County--are also well represented at the Collier Cemetery.
The Collier Cemetery rests on land donated by its namesake, early settler Rev. J.F. Collier. J.F. Collier was born in Kentucky in 1801 and became a Baptist minister, as recorded by Harden in The Pioneer. The Collier family arrived in Adams Township in early 1836 and soon afterward lost their fourteen year old son Amos who died in January of that year. The first burial at the Collier was Amos.
Streaked by sun and shadows, Jacob Boram's stone still represents this pioneer very well. Jacob was born in 1788 and died Oct. 13, 1855, at sixty-seven years of age. Jacob brought his family to Adams Township and is recorded as an early settler to the area by Samuel Harden in his history of the county entitled The Pioneers.
The cemetery was, quite naturally, tied to the Union Baptist Church in which Rev. Collier and his wife Rebecca were members. In 1834, the membership of the Union Baptist Church was only thirteen. The congregation continued to grow, however, requiring that larger houses of worship be built in 1852 and 1872. The land for both new buildings was also donated by Rev. Collier. The Collier Cemetery, therefore, holds not only the family and friends of the pastor but also many of the church's faithful. Rev. J.F. Collier continued "in a pastoral relation" in the governing body of the church until his own death in 1881. The cemetery he started continued to be used into the first half of the twentieth century.
Many of the cemetery's stones show the recent resetting by the dedicated historians and genealogist of Madison County.
***********Cache has been upgraded to small icing container. Left few trade items and geocaching pins. 7/4/05
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