“INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST”
The Indiana Spirit Quest series of geocaches
will take you to a number of historic cemeteries built by
Hoosier Pioneers. In just a year and a half, the quest has grown to
over two hundred twenty caches hidden in twenty-two Indiana
counties, and two Ohio counties, and the hiders have grown to eight
cacher teams, six of which are comprised of A Man and His
Dog... One who is a man and his Cat, and one who is a Dog and
her Woman. Over 390 cacher teams have logged
over 4,550 finds. One cache machine found 102 ISQ caches in a
single day.
Photos by SHADOW)
INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST
#196
”NO JACKPOT!"
Listen to What the SHADOW has to tell
us:
Welcome to Matson/Clark
Cemetery, Steuben Twp. , Steuben County.
This is an mid size
cemetery, (about 50 visible markers),and appears to be inactive. I
don't know the actual name . It is shown as Matson Cemetery on the
USGS topo map, but the Steuben County cemetery listing shows it as
the Clark Cemetery. There is no name sign at the site. There are
possible namesakes for both here.
The site is partially
maintained, as the unused area is not mowed. The boundry has an old
woven wire fence, but there have been posts for a chainlink fence
installed. The project was never completed, and these look to have
been here awhile.
I found seven
veterans’ Flagholders with flags in place, but only one
government style marker, that of A Civil War veteran. The other
markers had no confirming inscriptions.
The earliest legible marker
was dated 1839, that of Lucy Dagget. There are four Lemmon markers
in a row, two of which have the veterans’ flagholders Their
dates of death and age could make them veterans of the 1812 War,
but no confirming inscriptions are on the
markers.
Two possible namesakes for
the cemetery are Lewis I. Matson & Dr. A. P. Clark as their
markers are quite prominent.
--THE SHADOW
Dr. Clark died in 1867 at the age of
59.
The Four Lemmons were: John, died in 1847 at
age 84; Maurice, died in 1845 at age 82; David, died in 1856 at age
40; and Lucinda, died in 1863 at age 43.
The cache container is a
camo'd match holder. BYOP.Park with CareThe 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.
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