Ohio Spirit Quest #64 - "Good Ol' Edgar" 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).

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 Edgar Cemetery

Royalton Twp, Fulton County, Ohio

OHIO SPIRIT QUEST #64

"Good Ol' Edgar"

Also known commonly as Jordan Cemetery, Edgar Cemetery is located on land deeded to H.C. Jordan in 1833. The burial ground was established at an early date when Mrs. Brown, the mother of the wife of Henry Jordan, was interred. Cemetery trustees took responsibility of the property.



Royalton was the fourth township in its organization in the county, being organized June 4, 1837. Since its organization there has been but one change in its size, when the three southern tiers of sections were taken from it and added to the newly created township of Pike. As is well understood, it is in the northern tier of townships and lies between Amboy on the east and Chesterfield on the west, Pike bounding it on the south and the State of Michigan on the north.



There has been a little difference of opinion as to who was the first settler in the township, but Eli Phillips is generally accorded that honor. Coming into the territory, as these early settlers did, from the east, by the lake, or the so-called ‘white prairie schooner,’ upon its southern shore, through Ohio, or from the North, through Canada, via Detroit, it was quite natural that these explorations should be solely confined to this territory. Not until 1832, did entries begin to be made. In this year Eli Phillips entered his land, and his charter right to it (a deed and seal), was signed by Andrew Jackson, president of the United States. Early in the season of the following year Eli Phillips, with his young wife, started from the vicinity of Adrian for this disputed strip, and located where he had purchased the year before, upon sections ten and eleven, town 9 south, range 3 east, now in the township of Royalton, which was then an unbroken wilderness for at least seventy miles due west, and none nearer on the south than the Maumee river. Accustomed as he was to the Berkshire hills of old Massachusetts, where he was born, in the land of the Puritans, with his young wife, Vesta (Arnold) Phillips, and children. Mr. Phillips erected the log cabin, the first of this township, and also the first upon the soil of Fulton county. Very soon after Eli Phillips settled in this township, others followed, and came to stay.



There is but one small town in Royalton township; Lyons or Morey’s Corners, the postoffice name being the former. From the early days of its existence it has been a popular trading point, and in late years it has progressed until it does quite a flourishing business, being sustained by an excellent farming country. In writing of churches, schools and other public enterprises, this village has been frequently mentioned. The various industries incident to towns of this size, together with the social, religious, educational and political functions, are all represented, while the mercantile and other business interests are quite extensive.

Rural postoffices for the accommodation of the people were early established, some of which were kept in the farm houses. They have been discontinued on the adoption of the admirable system of “rural free delivery,” which brings almost every farmer in daily contact with the outside world, and his mail is left at his door. Add to this the convenience of the modern telephone, and the isolation of country life is reduced to the minimum.



The cache container is a small metal pill container.
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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