The Spokesrider

In the McCoy Cemetery (Knox County, IN 27-Mar-2012) there are two tombstones for Robert McCoy, placed back to back. In John Reel – Found there is a photo showing the one on the other side of the one shown in the above photo. Tonight I am trying to reconcile information about Robert’s brother, John.   Family [...]

From March 27′s ride.   Public schools are important in developing a maintaining a sense of community.   Much more than the school building is lost when a small town finds it necessary to merge its school with one in a larger town nearby.   It looks like the people of Frichton tried to control the damage by [...]

This was the first time I got my camera out on my five days of rides from Walt and Anne Rinderle’s B&B in Knox County week before last. Google map has it labelled it as Bruillotto Road in some places, and Brouilette Road in others.     The French name would be appropriate in that Vincennes was [...]

After the ride to French Lick the previous day I  was ready for a shorter ride on Friday.  There was a stiff wind from the southwest, so I went northeast to Owl Prairie in Daviess County.   You won’t find Owl Prairie on a map, though, because for most of its existence the place has been [...]

The original destination for Thursday’s ride was Freeman’s Corner.   At this point, where I crossed the White River on a trestle bridge near Wheatland, it was still the destination.   Later I decided that the town of French Lick was a more realistic goal. Most of the day’s ride was into the wind.   Then, when I [...]

On Tuesday’s ride I was looking for the John Reel who served in a mounted militia unit during the Black Hawk war.   I thought I might have found his grave in the McCoy Cemetery near Monroe City, Indiana, but it was only an informed guess, based on very scanty information. Wednesday morning I learned my [...]

This scene is from yesterday’s bike ride.  I was looking for the grave of a John Reel who was in the militia from Vincennes that marched to the Black Hawk war (or at least part-way there).    I may have found him, but not at this cemetery, even though at lot of Reels are buried here, [...]