“INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST”
The Indiana Spirit Quest series of
geocaches will take you to a number of historic sites and
cemeteries built by Hoosier Pioneers. In four years, the Spirit
Quest has grown to over 750 caches hidden in Indiana, Ohio,
Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Ontario
and the hiders have grown to over forty cacher teams.
Thousands of cacher teams have logged over
50,000 finds on these series.
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INDIANA
SPIRIT QUEST #652
"ALL
THE LITTLE GRAVEYARDS"
Welcome to Mississinewa Memorial Cemetery..with many very old
stones, dating back to the 1840's and 50's.This cemetery contains
burials removed from other cemeteries when the Reservoir was
formed. Older cemeteries incorporated here include: Bank; Captain
Dixon; Chester Troyer; Mount Vernon; Ogan; Pleasant Grove;
Somerset; Sugar Grove; Vernon; Waucoon and Wm. T. Hosier. There are
Lots of birdhouses here with active nests.
SEVENTH MACHINE GUN BATTALION, THIRD
DIVISION, SILVER STAR AND PURPLE HEART
Machine Gun Battalions were formed in March 1918 from the four
machine gun companies in each division. Each company was equipped
with 16 Vickers Machine Guns, giving a battalion a total of 64.
"We Cross the Marne Somewhere around the
23rd or 24th of July we moved across the Marne in our new trucks,
which were large G.M.C. trucks, and not the Ford
vans.
We crossed the Marne near the town Soilly.
We crossed on a pontoon bridge which had been built by the Germans.
Some American had hung on the bridge the sign, "Made in
Germany".
While crossing this bridge in our trucks we
were bombed and machine-gunned by dutch aeroplanes, which gave us a
new experience, not having gone through that kind of an attack
before. Paul expressed it in this way: "If you want to feel
helpless and insignificant, just let a big bird come along and drop
a bomb or shoot a machine gun at you".
We proceeded to a woods near Mont St. Pere.
Here Paul and I fortunately had a German dug out to sleep in. The
Germans had furnished the dug out with things stolen from French
homes. One thing in the dug out that Paul claimed as his particular
piece of furniture was a "boudoir chair".
In this position we had our guns set up in
support. Nothing in particular happened from now on until the first
part of August, except that we were under shell fire all of the
time." --Excerpt from The Story of the 7th Machine Gun Battalion by
1LT Luther W. Cobbey.
The Silver Star is the third highest
military decoration that can be awarded to a member of any branch
of the United States Armed Forces. It is also the third highest
award given for valor (in the face of the enemy). The Silver Star
is awarded for gallantry in action against an enemy of the United
States not justifying a higher award.
The Silver Star differs from the
Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross or Air Force Cross, in that
it requires a lesser degree of gallantry and need not be earned
while in a position of great responsibility. Soldiers who received
a citation for gallantry in action during World War I were eligible
to apply to have the citation converted to the Silver Star
Medal.
FIND LOGS ON THIS CACHE THAT INDICATE
NIGHT CACHING WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT NOTICE!
The cache container is a SPICE JAR.
BYOP. The cache is not located near a grave...Do not disturb
monuments. If you find a fallen US flag, please stick it back in
the ground or in its holder. You must sign the cache log to claim a
find. If you do not sign the log, or reveal additional hints, or
indicate that you cached at night,or fail to fulfill all additional
requirements, your log will be deleted without notice. As always,
please be respectful, and cache in, trash out.
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