“OHIO SPIRIT
QUEST”
The Ohio Spirit Quest series of geocaches will
take you to a number of historic cemeteries built by Buckeye
Pioneers. This series is inspired by and a continuation of the
Indiana Spirit Quest caches created by Six Dog Team. In just over
three years, the SPIRIT QUEST has grown to over 550 caches, with
the hiding teams growing as well. The Ohio Spirit Quest has begun
to grow with twenty nine current hides in Ohio, with four current
caching teams, three each with A Man and His Dog... and one
with A Woman and her Dog. Over 1,000 cachers
have logged over 20,000 finds. One cache machine found 111 ISQ
caches in a single day (daylight hours only).
Come with us now for a
virtual tour of this old burial ground via this page, then go out
and find the cache!
Berkebile Cemetery
OHIO SPIRIT QUEST
#029
"On Berkebile Farm"
This is our twenty nineth hide across the
border in Ohio. Listen to what -E- has to say:
Welcome to Berkebile
Cemetery, York Township, Fulton County, Ohio.
Berkebile Cemetery is situated right next to the Wabash Cannonball
Trail in York Township. It is believed that the cemetery is named
after Jonathan Berkebile. Jonathan was born on a farm near
Johnstown, PA. It was in Pennsylvania that he married Catherine
Stutzman and had 6 children. Sometime after 1864 he moved to Fulton
County, along with his brother and sister-in-law, David and Sarah
Berkebile (Sarah was also Catherine's sister). Jonathan was a
farmer, and his brother David was a minister. The Berkebile Farm
was passed down to Abraham, Jonathan's son, after he passed. The
Berkebile Family reunion was supposed to be held there in 1912. A
full account of the Berkebile Family Reunion of 1911 can be found
here.
Other family members buried here include:
Franklin Berkebile, son of George W Berkebile, grandson of
Jonathan Berkebile
Loid R. Berkebile, son of George W Berkebile, grandson of Jonathan
Berkebile
Sarah Jane Berkebile, daughter of Jonathan Berkebile
You can find many other family members at Wauseon Union Cemetery
and Greenlawn Cemetery in Delta. 
The cache container is a
camo'd small tupperware. Parking is available just off of
the road. If you find a fallen US flag, please stick it
back in the ground. As always, please be respectful, and cache
in, trash out. Pray for our Soldiers, Marines, Sailors,
CoastGuardsmen and Airmen in harm's way.
Placed by a member of:
"Ohio Spirit
Quest" is brought to you by the following fellows of
GEOOSQ*: The SixDogTeam, THE SHADOW,
The Moop Along, -Eleanor-. If you are interested in spreading
the quest to your neck of the woods AND WOULD LIKE TO JOIN
US, email The Moop Along with caching resume and at least 25
current notarized references.
*Grand Exalted Order of
the Ohio Spirit Quest
