My friend, a noted archaeologist, Francis Riddell, would some time ask me to do research for him. One occasion it was Chauncey Spring, in the Belfast region of the Honey Lake Valley. When I sent him my findings, he remarked that we probably made more fuss for about him when he was deceased, than others did when he was alive. Years later, that would be farther from case  in regards to Chauncey Smith. I actually published his tale, and his buried treasure in Untold Stories.

Along that line of Riddell’s thought, this tale is about a German immigrant day laborer by the name of Robert Isigheit, who resided at Amedee in the early 1900s. We really do not know much about him. There was an incident that occurred at the Amedee Hotel. On May 10, 1911, while working on the acetylene gas plant that was recently  installed to improve the hotel’s lighting, an explosion occurred  His clothes, and two other workers clothes were burned and received minor burns  arms to their arms and faces, but aid quickly responded, the injuries deemed not serious.

On February 22, 1913, Robert Isigheit, at age of 66, died of a heart attack at Amedee. He was the last person buried in the Amedee Cemetery.

Tim