Ohio Spirit Quest #45 - High on the Mount 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 40 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!



Welcome to Ely Cemetery

Franklin Twp, Fulton County, Ohio

OHIO SPIRIT QUEST #45

High on the Mount

The Ely Cemetery (also known as Mount Salem) is located on the east side of County Road 27-1, 70 rods north of County Road L. (SE 1/4, Sec 2, T10S, R1W)

In 1852 the area Presbyterians built a house of worship along the road known as the Brunersburg, Evansport and Lockport Turnpike, north of the Angola Road, on land obtained from John H. Fisher and Benjamin Persing.

In 1855 the church trustees purchased land south of the church to be used as a burial site. This grave yard, first known as the Mt. Salem Cemetery, has for many years been called the Ely Cemetery. However, the DAR cemetery listings refer to this cemetery as the Presbyterian Cemetery, thus the heading for this burial ground.

The first buried at the cemetery was Albe Thompson who died 19 Jun 1855 at the age of 20 years and 10 days. In 1984, no marker was found for Albe Thompson. Some markers in the cemetery show death dates before 1855 and it is surmised that these mark graves moved from other burial sites. The Presbyterian Church closed in 1898 and the building was dismantled.



The cache container is camo'ed regular tupperware.
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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