“INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST”
Pioneer Cemetery (All photos by THE SHADOW)
The Indiana Spirit Quest series of geocaches
will take you to a number of small, rural, historic
cemeteries built by Hoosier Pioneers. In less than a year, the
quest has grown to over a hundred caches hidden in nine northeast
Indiana counties, and the hiders have grown to three cacher teams,
each comprised of A Man and His Dog... PRAIRIEPARTNERS has set a record for one-day ISQ finds on
10-16-2004 at 55! 112 cacher teams have logged over 1,600
finds.
INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST #105
”VISTA CRUISER!"
The Shadow has selected Sedan Cemetery,
Richland Township, DeKalb County, for this caching experience. Even
tho you cannot see him, Listen carefully to what THE SHADOW has to
say about this place:
Welcome to Sedan Cemetery,
a secluded, small to mid-size cemetery that had its beginning from
the nearby community of Sedan. It is still active. The "town" had
its beginning because of the early railroads. The railroads also
ended it. I obtained these quotes from an article about railway
history in the county dated 1914: "Four miles west of Waterloo
another station was located and named Hudson, and later changed to
Sedan. The Sedan post office was "Iba." Every effort was put forth
to build up a town at Sedan. Parties who owned the land donated
town lots free of charge to anyone who would agree to build a house
on the lot, this being the only consideration required. An elevator
was erected, and during the first ten years it was a popular grain
market. The late William McIntyre, of Auburn, was agent for the
railroad company for about ten years prior to 1872. During this
time Sedan flourished, but on his retirement the town lost its
prestige. "
"The Air Line created
Corunna, Waterloo and Butler, but killed Sedan, already arrested by
the growth of Auburn and Newville, and made Uniontown an isolated
suburb of Waterloo. The Fort Wayne, Jackson & Saginaw boomed
Auburn. The Detroit & Eel River helped Auburn and Butler. The
Baltimore & Ohio helped Auburn and Auburn Junction, and created
St. Joe and Garrett. The Wabash created Ashley."
I found some Civil War vets
here, as well as a few from later wars. Off road parking is
available. --THE SHADOW
Thanks, Lamont! This little place has a
number of graves dating back to the 1850's. The oldest burial
record we could find was for Watson E. Conley, died Nov. 6, 1847,
aged 11 months. Buried here is War of the Rebellion Veteran Park
Seberts (1840 - 1919), a member of Co. A, 88th Regiment Indiana
Volunteers.
The cache container was a
small camo'd match holder, but no longer. BYOP. Park with
care. If you find a fallen US flag, please stick it back in
the ground. Eagles wait til next year. All NFL teams are now
undefeated for the new Season! As always, please be respectful, and
cache in, trash out.
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you are not and we approve of this cache. Don't mean nuthin'!! It's
like a frog on a lillie in the middle of the pond. Don't make a
particle of difference, one way or the other. Maybe it does, maybe
it doesn't, but we don't cotton to that!
MYSTERY GEOCACHING DAWG #3
Who is this brave laddie?