The Spokesrider

It’s not always easy to explain why I like to go riding to places like this. It’s a place where a family with the surname Harness settled along the Michigan Road in the 1830s. Now it’s just a cornfield. I like the flat, agricultural country like this, in large part because of the people who [...]

The Big Miami Reserve (shown above) was in the shape of a rhombus, almost. If the Wabash River would have run in a straight line between Lagro and Logansport, it would have formed that shape — a parallelogram with four equal sides. But of course, the Wabash River doesn’t run in a straight line (which it would do if it followed the dark blue line on the north edge of the reserve) so it doesn’t quite make a regular geometric figure.

Two different Catron men who are buried here had married Proffit women, each woman a daughter of the Adam and Christena Proffit who are also buried here. The Proffits and Catrons originally came from Germany, then lived in Virginia and Tennessee before moving here.

The first ride on Memorial Day weekend was from Kokomo to Frankfort, Indiana. One point of interest along the way was the boundary of the old Miami Reserve. Google Map shows an old cemetery in the middle of a field near the west boundary — the “Old Prophet Cemetery.”