This
is a micro in a cemetery in Stilesville Indiana. Below is the work
of Rupert2, when he had cache GCP923 published. Enjoy!
go-purdue
INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST
Photos by
Rupert2
The
Indiana Spirit Quest series of geocaches will take you to a number
of historic cemeteries built by Hoosier Pioneers. In just over a
year and a half, the quest has grown to over a two hundred ten
caches hidden in twenty-two Indiana counties, and the hiders have
grown to seven cacher teams, six of which are comprised of A Man
and His Dog... and one who is a Dog and her Woman. 325 cacher teams
have logged over 3,200 finds.
INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST #214
”Caching in Stile"
Welcome to the Stilesville Cemetery,
Franklin Township, Hendricks Co, north of US40 (the National Road)
in downtown Stilesville. The picture above is the grave of the wife
of Jeremiah Stiles. The cemetery land was donated by Stiles in 1827
after Stiles was forced to move his wifes remains from across the
river into higher ground. The sign further indicates that along the
west fence of the cemetery is located the unmarked graves of at
least twelve immigrants who died of food poisoning while traveling
the National Road from Ohio to California in
1849.
The above grave is that of Revolutionary War Veteran
Joel Garrison. He was born in Cumberland County New Jersey in 1760
and died in 1835. As a Private he served as a Drummer for the
Contiental Line.
The above grave is that of Lieutenant William
Denney, a veteran of the Revolutionary War. This grave was a
complete surprise to me, which I (quite literally) stumbled upon
while returning to my car. Lt. Denney's name does not appear on
list of any Patriots of Hendricks County that I have seen to date.
I have contacted the SAR to hopefuly find out more about this
unknown Patriot.
If you find fallen or worn US flags at the graves of
veterans, please take a moment to upright or replace them. Dispose
of worn US flags in a respectable manner. If you find
the coordinates to be a little off, do not hesitate to post a
waypoint with your log. As always, be respectful, and cache
in, trash out.
WARNING: FIND LOGS ON THIS CACHE THAT INDICATE NIGHT
CACHING WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT
NOTICE!
"Indiana Spirit Quest" is brought to
you by the following fellows of GEOISQ*: The SixDogTeam, Kodiak
Kid, THE SHADOW, Team Shydog, Rupert2, Torry, ~Mystery Dog~, and
Team Tigger International."