“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 twelve current hides in one Northwest Ohio county,
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!
Lash Cemetery
OHIO SPIRIT QUEST
#012
"Dolemite"
This is our twelfth hide across the border in
Ohio. Listen to what -E- has to say:
Welcome to Lash Cemetery,
Jefferson Township, Williams County, Ohio.
Lash is a cemetery hidden
out in the open, right on Hwy 107 just east of
Montpelier.
This is another cemetery
without a sign giving the name. The name was found through online
research, and it's also the first large headstone you see when you
arrive. This cemetery made the pages of the local newspaper back in
1996 when presidential candidate Bob Dole stopped by for a visit. A
man in nearby Montpelier had made the connection between Bob Dole
and Michael Dole, a man buried at Lash Cemetery. Michael Dole was a
farmer who owned about 150 acres of land just northeast of
Montpelier in the 1850s. He died in 1867, was buried in Lash
Cemetery, and turned out to be Bob Dole's
great-great-grandfather.
Various Headstones
The cache container is a
camo'd small tupperware. One car 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
