“INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST”
Photo by Lead Dog
The Indiana Spirit Quest series of
geocaches will take you to a number of small, rural, historic
cemeteries built by Hoosier Pioneers in central/Northeast
Indiana. PRAIRIEPARTNERS has set a record for
one-day ISQ finds on 10-16-2004 at 55! 89 cacher teams have logged
over 1,200 finds.
ISQ STATS as of
12/04/04
TOP TEN FINDS
1. 75 --Buddaman, Exalted Grand Poohbah of ISQ Seekers
2. 65 --Sweetie Pie,
3. 61 --Itzme
4. 55 --Prairepartners
5. 48 --One Angel & Family
6. 45 --Bluegillfisherman
7. 44 --Team Tigger International/Awsome Ev
8. 41 -- Just Mee/ Hutt
9. 40 --Mattster
10. 34 --Jplus14
FTF's
2. 14 --Buddaman
3. 8 --Pinestrail
INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST
#77
”Two Pair"
This quest will take you to a West Union
Cemetery, in Rock Creek Township, Huntington County.
WEST
UNION
This old burial ground contains at least two souls laid to
rest in 1850, with a total of 245 interrments. Several Union Civil
War Veterans are buried here, including Dan'l Lines, Co.A 10th Ohio
Cav., and F.M. Wasson, Co. I 167th Ohio Inf. and John R. Marshall,
Co. C 12th Ind. (1840-1912) and Abraham Pugh Co. K 101st Ind. vol.
Inf. (1832-1889)
There are 19 Morgans buried here, at least 7 of whom were
children. There are 19 Souers, including Ernest L. (39th
Inf.-served with honor in WWI), 2 sours, and 6 sowers. There are no
less than 38 Rittenhouses, including two tombstones that each are
shared by sets of twins:
LORENA (d. 1848,aged 1)
LORETTA (d. 1854,aged 7)
THEODORE (d. 1855, aged 13)
THEOPHILUS (illeg.)
For extra credit, find the tombstone of
Thomas J. Marshall, who died at age 74 in 1861. His stone reads:
"Died in the..." I can't read the rest, can you???
The cache container is
a 35 mm film can. BYOP. Park with care. 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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taken with 1970 Mamiya-Sekor 500DTL SLR) We are the Go Gators!
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NIGHT CACHING IS NOT ALLOWED ON ANY ISQ'S