Ohio Spirit Quest #35-Liberty Center & The Youngs Multi-Cache

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TeamMina: The cemetery has undergone some razing of it's elements, which has left this cache unable to function as intended.

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Hidden : 7/1/2008
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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"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 grown to over 30 in Ohio, with five current caching teams, three each with A Man and His Dog, one with a Couple and Their 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!





Youngs Cemetery
Welcome to Liberty Center, Henry County
OHIO SPIRIT QUEST #35
"Liberty Center & The Youngs"


This cemetery is located in Liberty Center, Ohio. The town was platted in 1863 on the Wabash Railroad. Much of the village's growth and success is attributed to Calvin C. Young and his family. This cemetery is named for them.

No name in the Liberty Center commands a more respectful memory than that of the late Calvin Cheney Young. Mr. Young was the founder of this town, said to be the most attractive residential village between Toledo and St. Louis. The village was laid out on his own land, but he did not stand idly by while others were doing the work of making the town. It was through his influence that the Wabash Railway was constructed through that locality, and to induce them to locate there right of way he built at his own expense the station house which for many years was the depot of the village. He also became the first telegraph operator and station agent, and held those positions for twenty years. He was a man of great enterprise, always successful in handling business transactions, and acquired a large amount of property. He owned two large farms, and he improved two of the best residence streets of Liberty Center.

Calvin Cheney Young was born in New York State March 31, 1825, and married his first two wives in that state. After coming to Ohio Calvin C. Young married Mrs. S. A. (Pinney) Geering. Her first husband, J. W. Geering, whom she married in 1878, died in 1880, at the age of forty-seven, in Washington Township of Henry County. He was a native of New York State, and was married to Miss Pinney in Erie, Pennsylvania, where she had been a popular teacher in the city schools for ten years and four months.

Since her first marriage Mrs. Young has lived in Henry County, where Mr. Young died on March 1, 1911. She occupied the fine ten-room house on Maple Avenue in Liberty Center, and was one of the most beloved women of that community. Mrs. Young, continued to make her home at Liberty Center, and used her ample means on many noteworthy causes. Her active interest in foreign missions caused her to maintain a Woman's Mission and a scholarship at Vicar-abad in India, and she also built at a cost of $700 a schoolhouse in Corea, and is now raising a fund of $3,000 for a mission house and institute in that same country. Her charity at home has been not less extensive, though not so well known, and she was constantly devising plans for the benefit of public and educational institutions.

Mrs. Young was one of the devoted workers of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Liberty Center. She belongs to the Grant Association and the Eastern Star, and from an early age she has been a woman of many resources and the cultivation of many interests had kept her young in spite of the advancing years.

This information is from "A History of Northwest Ohio" By Nevin Otto Winter

The coordinates for this multi-cache will take you to the final resting place for Calvin C. Young and his wife. You will need to use information on the monument to find the cache:
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NORTH: SUBTRACT the total of all the single digits under Calvin's name

WEST: SUBTRACT the number of letters in his wife's first name
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Congrats to lctiger for the First-To-Find!!

***Congrats to Mcrtyfan for her 500th find at this cache!!!***

The cache container is a small round camoed lock & lock. If you find a fallen US flag, please stick it back in the ground. As always, please be respectful, and cache in, trash out.


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** THIS IS A GENUINE OHIO SPIRIT QUEST CACHE**

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