“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 fifteen 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).
PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL OF POSTED CEMETERY HOURS,
TYPICALLY DAWN TO DUSK. ANY FIND LOGS INDICATING NIGHT CACHING WILL
BE DELETED WITHOUT NOTICE.
Come with us now for a
virtual tour of this old burial ground via this page, then go out
and find the cache!
Saint Joseph Cemetery (Photos by -Eleanor-)
OHIO SPIRIT QUEST
#015
”You can't eat at Joe's"
This is our fifteenth hide across the border
in Ohio. Listen to what TMA has to say:
Welcome to Saint Joseph
Cemetery, Florence Township, Williams County,
Ohio.
This is an incredibly well
kept cemetery, right off SR 34, in Blakeslee,
Ohio.
Saint Joseph Cemetery sits
on the east side of the state route, looking majestic as you drive
out of Blakeslee. A healthy mix of dates on the tombstones, with a
lot of newer stones scattered about.
One family of note buried here are the Thiels, from Luxembourg.
They emigrated to the United States in mid 1800's, and came to
reside in Williams County. Buried here are Anna Schmidt, Matthias,
Nicholas, Rose Brosemer, and Donald, to name a few. Donald was in
the U.S. Army during World War II.
There might be an FTF Geocoin involved, I forget :)
TMA
Various Headstones
The cache container is a
camo'd small lok 'n' lok. -- BYOP. Plenty of parking. 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. All photos by -Eleanor-.
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
