“INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST”
The Indiana Spirit Quest series of geocaches
will take you to a number of small, rural, historic
cemeteries built by Hoosier Pioneers in central/Northeast
Indiana. PRAIRIEPARTNERS has set a record for
one-day ISQ finds on 10-16-2004 at 55! 90 cacher teams have logged
over 1,250 finds.
ISQ STATS as of
12/10/04
TOP TEN FINDS
1. 75 --Buddaman
2. 74 --JPlus14
3. 65 --Sweetie Pie
4. 62--Team Tigger International/Awsome Ev
5. 61 --Itzme
6. 57 --Bluegillfisherman
7. 55 --Prairepartners
8. 48 --One Angel & Family
9. 41 -- Just Mee/ Hutt
10. 40 --Mattster
FTF's
2. 14 --Buddaman
3. 12 --Bluegillfisherman
4. 8 --Pinestrail
INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST
#87
”Nix' Nicks"
OK, Searchers, this Quest takes you to St. Catherines Catholic
Church Cemetery in Washington Township, Whitley
County.
This area is called "Nix Settlement" and
there are no less that 39 members of the Nix family buried here.
Five of them are Marys (one quarter of the total Marys in the
cemetery) and four of them are Named Nicholas Nix! The
original cemetery and church were located not far from here on one
of the Nicholas Nix's farm. The cemetery was moved to its present
location and some of the older stones that were moved can be seen
in the north east section of the plot. There are records for 273
burials, but the size of this place doesn't seem to support
that.
Be sure and check out the big crucifix.
There are also 21 Smiths buried here. Earliest record is LOUISA
ARNOLD, died 1853. Some of the Veterans you may meet here include
MARK MEYER 1924-1944, U.S. Army Air Forces; Dewey Sandemeyer,
1899-1976, Private, U.S. Army, WWI; Marvin Altmon, 1930-1997, Cpl.
USAF; and:
Joseph G. Alles, 1921-1944, 2nd LT. 422 AAF
Bomb Sq. WWII
Lt. Alles was a member of the 422nd Bomb
Squadon-Heavy, 305th Bombardment Group, assigned to the 8th Air
Force and stationed in the U.K. 1942-1946. Flying B-17's was one of
the more hazardous duties associated with World War II. The group
was commanded for a time by then Col. Curtis LeMay, who went on to
become one of the most distinguished Military and Political Leaders
our country produced in the latter half of the Twentieth Century.
The 305th's insignia featured a fractured Swastika.
Mystery Dog.
The cache container WAS
a magnetic key hider thing. Now its a film can. BYOP. Park
with care. 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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VISITING CEMETERIES AT NIGHT IS AGAINST THE LAW-DO SO AND
YOUR LOG WILL BE DELETED.