Ohio Spirit Quest #41 - "First Name: Chesterfield" Traditional Cache

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).

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Welcome to Hawley Cemetery

Chesterfield Twp, Fulton County, Ohio

OHIO SPIRIT QUEST #41

"First Name: Chesterfield"

The Hawley Cemetery is located on land deeded to Thomas Hawley in 1834. The earliest marker dates from 1840, but it is likely that some were buried here before that time. In 1865 the Hawley family deeded the burial grounds to the trustees of the Chesterfield Township Cemetery Association and is, in 1986, under control of the township trustees.

Chesterfield Clemons and his family were the first white settlers within the limits of Chesterfield township. They selected their home here, October 6, 1834. Mr. Clemons was born in Ontario County, New York, in 1797. In 1821 he and his new bride Fannie Downing, emigrated to Painesville, Ohio, from which he came to this county as stated.



Animated by the true pioneer spirit, as he must have been, Chesterfield Clemons and family bravely penetrated into an almost undisturbed wilderness of what was then southern Lenawee county, and commenced to make a home for himself and family. His faithful and untiring industry, privations and hardships, were largely instrumental in converting a howling wilderness into a flourishing and enlightened community. Mr. Clemons came in the morning of life with his six daughters and wife, possessed of little else than willing hands, stout hearts, and sincere and honest desires. This family endured trials and dangers, sorrows and tribulations, unknown to the later settlers, because they were alone in the wilderness with no thought save to grapple with their dangers and adversities.

Chesterfield Clemons lived but a short time to see the fruits of his labor, or the wilderness blossom as a rose. He died at his home in Chesterfield township in the year 1842. The first election held in the township was ordered at the house of Chesterfield Clemons, and he was accorded the honor, which now stands as a monument to his memory, of having the new township’ named for him—Chesterfield.



The organization of this township occurred on the June 4, 1837, by taking all of town nine south, ranges one and two east, and all of town ten south; ranges one and two east, excepting a strip one mile wide from the west side of towns nine and ten south, range one east, and embracing all the territory described from the “Harris line” on the north, to the”Fulton line” on the south. The house of Chesterfield Clemons was designated as the polling place of the township






Congratulations to -Eleanor- & TMA for being FTF!


The cache container is a medium-sized rectangular camoed lock-n-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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