"REMINDER: MICHIGAN CEMETERIES ARE ONLY OPEN DURING DAYLIGHT HOURS - DO NOT DO THIS CACHE AT NIGHT"
“Michigan Spirit
Quest”
The Michigan Spirit Quest series of
geocaches will take you to a number of historic
cemeteries
built by MICHIGAN Pioneers. This series is inspired by and is a
continuation of the Indiana Spirit Quest caches created by
SixDogTeam. In just over two and a half years, the SPIRIT QUEST has
grown to over five hundred and fifty caches and the hiders have grown
to twenty-five cacher teams in 3 states and one province, most of
which are comprised of
Dogs and their Humans. Over 1,000
cachers
have logged over 20,000 finds. One cache machine found 102 ISQ
caches in a single day (daylight hours only).
(PHOTO FROM WEB OF VERDINE GILLETT SR'S GRAVE STONE)
Michigan Spirit Quest
#29
"LAKESHORE"
WELCOME TO MICHIGAN SPIRIT QUEST #29 - LAKESHORE
In the Lakeshore Cemetery you will find the grave of Verdine Horton Gillette, Sr; Birth:Jan. 13, 1843 Death: Feb. 27, 1914. Verndine is one of many Ottawa County pioneers buried here. Many much earlier than Verndine. There is also a Potters Field containing the remains of those too poor to afford a lot and stone.
Verdine was born in Fallsburgh, New York, in Sullivan County. He was the son of Martin Gillette and Anna (Braun). At the age of 21, he entered the Civil War, serving the Union, on Feb. 13, 1864, for New York. He received Distinguished Service recognition while serving with Company D, the 15th Heavy Artillery Regiment. His commander was Maj. Julius Dieckman, and his regiment was honorably discharged and mustered out on Aug. 22, 1865. He was an early pioneer to the Holland, Michigan area, along with his older brother George B. Gillette, and was among the first of many families of settlers (Cochran, Lawrence, Carrier, Cotrell, Ogden, Nicholas, Gillette, Chapman, Jocelyn, Drinkwater, Davis, Wiggins, Souter, Scott, Lyons, Robinson, Smith, Huff, Campbell, Horton, and Crofoot)to the Holland area from the east. There, he made his living as a farmer. He married Anna (Lund), and they had three children; Ethel, Isa (Baker), and Verdine Gillette Jr. His daughter, Ethel, preceded him in death.
DEATH CERTIFICATE FOR VERDINE GILLETTE SR
LOGS ON THIS CACHE THAT INDICATE NIGHT CACHING
WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT
NOTICE!
>The cache container is a BISON TUBE. BYOP. The cache is not located
near a grave... If you find a fallen US flag, please stick it
back in the ground or replace it. As always, please be respectful,
and cache in, trash out.
Say a prayer for our brave troops.
God Bless America!
MSQ caches are brought to you
by the following fellows of GEOMSQ:
SixDogTeam (Earthdog Patrick,
Lead Dog, Wheel Dog), Wolverine Warriors, The Outcaches,
SafariBob & Tweety, PairOMedicChick, Cyclops,
Son of Cyclops, The Herd, Menstown1, and Geo's Loulog .
If you are interested in spreading the
Quest to your neck of the
woods AND WOULD LIKE TO JOIN US,
email Wolverine Warriors.
*Grand Exalted Order
of
the Michigan Spirit Quest*
