INDIANA
SPIRIT QUEST
Photos by BBsurveyors
The Indiana Spirit Quest series of
geocaches will take you to a number of historic cemeteries built by
Hoosier Pioneers. In just over a year and a half, the quest has
grown to over two hundred sixty caches hidden in twenty-five
Indiana counties, and the hiders have grown to eleven cacher teams,
six of which are comprised of A Man and His Dog, one of which is A
Couple and Their Three Dogs ... and one who is a Dog and her Woman.
390 cacher teams have logged over 4,556
finds.
INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST #261
”Confederate
Lineup"
Welcome to the Lowry Cemetery, Jackson Township, Boone
County. This cemetery has a few graves from the early 20th century,
however, most are from the second half of the 19th century. It is
located in the town of Jamestown in the Southeast Quarter of
Section 10, Township 17 North, Range 2 West, Second Principal
Meridian of the Public Land Survey System. Jamestown was
established in 1830 just a few days before Boone County was
established. Jamestown was the original seat of Boone County.
Lebanon became the county seat in 1832.
We were quite surprised to arrive here and
find four gravestones for Civil War veterans from the Confederate
States of America. At least the stones say they are all CSA vets.
When we looked up John B. Yelton, Co B, 1 Ind Hv Arty, he was
listed as a Union soldier. We haven't resolved this one yet. If you
have any suggestions, please post them. The other three soldiers
were verified as members of the units listed on their gravestones.
You might get a clearer picture by looking at the photo gallery at
the bottom of this listing.
This is the gravestone of Archibald Gibson who died February 13,
1855 at the ripe old age of 95. Mr. Gibson was born in Pittsylvania
County, Virginia. John Gibson (relative ?) was responsible for
Jamestown's plat filing. John died September 11, 1838 and is
reported to be the earliest burial in this cemetery.
Let's not forget the Union vets buried here. We found five. Two of
these were eroded so badly we couldn't read them. It's kind of sad.
Above is 1st Lt. Preston L. Whitaker, Company G, 55th Regiment,
Indiana Infantry. Another member of the 55th, Luther M. Oliphant,
is also buried here. The 55th only saw service for three months in
1862. Most of the members were captured at the Battle of Richmond,
KY. They were paroled and sent back to Indianapolis.
The
cache container is a small pill
bottle.
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