INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST
Photos by BBsurveyors
The
Indiana Spirit Quest series of geocaches will take you to a number
of historic cemeteries built by Hoosier Pioneers. In just over a
year and a half, the quest has grown to over two hundred twenty
caches hidden in twenty-two Indiana counties, and the hiders have
grown to ten cacher teams, six of which are comprised of A Man and
His Dog, one of which is A Couple and Their Three Dogs ... and one
who is a Dog and her Woman. 390 cacher teams have logged over 4,556
finds.
INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST #226
”Rural
Electrification"
Welcome to the Providence Cemetery, Walnut
Township, Montgomery County. This is a small rural cemetery less
than 1/4 mile from the Montgomery-Boone County line. Although still
in service, there are only a few modern graves. It is located in
the Southeast Quarter of Section 12, Township 18 North, Range 3
West, Second Principal Meridian of the Public Land Survey System.
Curiously, there is a power line that crosses the lot south of the
graves.
This is the gravestone of "F.A. WRIGHT, CO. F., 54th IND. INF."
Ferdinand Aubrey Wright was born about 1840 in Boone County,
Indiana. He married Sarah Ann Bush on April 27, 1861. The 54th
Indiana Infantry was organized in Indianapolis and saw action in
Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana.
This is the gravestone of Elizabeth Beck. She was
married to Solomon Beck who died in 1833. Solomon Beck received a
land patent from the United States for land in Section 12 in 1829.
He is the namesake for the nearby hamlet of
Beckville.
This gravestone and the one to the left and behind are rather
unique. Apparently these women rate! Their maiden names are shown.
What a geneologist's dream. Elizabeth Airhart and Harriet Farlow
were the wives of Andrew Loop. The two white stones leaning against
Harriet's stone are those of her and Elizabeth's children. The
original stones for Elizabeth and Harriet are leaning on the other
side of Harriet's stone.
The cache
container is round and plastic, about the diameter of a
silver dollar. Please leave it at least as well concealed, if
not better, than you found it. If you find fallen or worn US
flags at the graves of veterans, please take a moment to
upright or replace them. Dispose of worn US flags in a
respectable manner. If you find the coordinates
to be a little off, do not hesitate to post a waypoint with
your log. As always, be respectful, and cache in, trash
out. God Bless our troops in harm's
way.
"Indiana Spirit Quest" is brought to you by the
following fellows of GEOISQ*: The SixDogTeam, Kodiak Kid, THE
SHADOW, Team Shydog, Rupert2, Torry, ~Mystery Dog~, Team
Tigger International, Cache Commando and
BBsurveyors."