“INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST”
The Indiana Spirit Quest series of
geocaches will take you to a number of small, rural, historic
cemeteries built by Hoosier Pioneers in central Indiana. You can
map out a route and get a bunch of ‘em in one
trip!
INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST
#24:
”The Old Wooden Cross”
The trail of this quest will lead you to
Gilead Cemetery in Perry Township, Miami County, Indiana.
It’s a fairly big place, with burials dating back to the
1840’s and still active. A nice feature is the combination
Tool Shed, His & Hers Outhouse. If you wander around a bit, you
may find the bronze marker of a twenty-one-year-old paratrooper who
died in Viet Nam, MICHAEL KARL WYMIRE, from Macy, and the
marker for a Great War Ammo Train Wagoner, MERRILL
ELLIOTT.(Can you picture the mules pulling the wagons somewhere
in France?) Another touching memorial you may come across is that
for sixteen-year-old RANDY LEE HUGHES. Another stone with
wording you rarely see is that for ALFRED DOUD
“Believed Buried Here”. You can see photos of these
stones on the links below. This cemetery also is the location for
the Swihart Stone with the laser-etched image of the Roan Covered
Bridge and adjacent Citizens Cemetery (ISQ # 30) It is located due
south of the Outhouse. But this cache site is dedicated to sailor
who died in World War II, whose small bronze plaque
reads:
ENSIGN KENNETH E.
GEPPINGER
1920 –
1944
This veteran’s plain plaque is attached to a simple wooden
cross made from common 2x 4’s , broken at the
base…
The original cache container was a
small Tupperware-type container ,but it has gone missing and has
been replaced with an orange plastic pill bottle--so it's now a
MICRO, but should be easy to find...Oops! now it's a camo'd pill
bottle--Oops! now it's been replaced with a film can--oops! now
it's another film can!.OOPS NOW IT'S ANOTHER ONE! If you find a
fallen U.S. flag, please stick it back in the ground, preferably
next to a Vet’s Marker. As always, please be respectful, and
cache in, trash out.
 Cache In -
Trash Out!  BRING YOUR DOG!
Available year-round 
Less than 500 ft. from car to cache
 MODERN
OUTHOUSE
 Check Tide Before
Caching  Accessible
in Winter
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NOTICE, 7-29-05: NIGHT
CACHING IS NOT ALLOWED ON ISQ's.