“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/Northeast
Indiana. PRAIRIEPARTNERS has set a record for
one-day ISQ finds on 10-16-2004 at 55! 90 cacher teams have logged
over 1,250 finds.
ISQ STATS as of
12/15/04
TOP TEN FINDS
1. 75 --Buddaman
2. 74 --JPlus14
4. 65 --Sweetie Pie
5. 63 --Itzme
6. 62--Team Tigger International/Awsome Ev
7. 57 --Bluegillfisherman
8. 55 --Prairepartners
9. 48 --One Angel & Family
10. 41 -- Just Mee/ Hutt
11. 40 --Mattster
FTF's
2. 14 --Buddaman
3. 12 --Bluegillfisherman
4. 8 --Pinestrail
INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST
#88
”We were soldiers once, and young..."
This quest will take you to two
side-by-side graveyards, Washington Township and Old Baptist, in
Washington Township, Whitley County.
The oldest burial I found for Washington
was 1894. There are about 69 interrments, 15 of which are
Alexanders. A poem on one of the Chamberlin stones
reads:
"Parents, thou at now at home,
Mong angels fair above
But yet below thy child must roam
'til summoned by His Love."
Look here for VERNON McWHIRTER, 1893-1962,
SGT HQ RR&C Svc ASC WWI.
Old Baptist, west of the drive, is much
older, with 137 souls, the first of whom was MARGARET ALEXANDER ,
died July 3, 1833. The Civil War is represented by Corp'l JNO
CHAMBERLIN CO F 153 IN INF, and Lieut. G.W. SCOTT, died 9-9-1864.
Sarah Chamberlin's poem reads:
Rest here mother in quiet sleep,
While friends in sorrow over thee weep.
But this cache is dedicated to one of our
brothers who gave all, and whose short life ended in Viet Nam, just
short of his 18th birthday.:
TERRY T.
WRIGHT
12-23-47 - 10-10-65
INDIANA
PFC CO. D
1 BN 12 CAVALRY
VIETNAM
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Private Wright was 11 Bravo, Regular Army, a ground casualty,
Killed In Action by enemy small arms fire. His name is memorialized
on Panel 02E, Row 118 of the Wall in Washington, D.C.. God Rest His
Soul.
The youngest Vietnam KIA is believed
to be Dan Bullock USMC, at 15 years old.
At least five men killed in Vietnam
were 16 years old.
At least twelve men killed in Vietnam
were 17 years old.
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. God Bless our troops in harm's
way.
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NIGHT CACHING IS NOT ALLOWED ON ANY ISQ
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Joseph Galloway: [narrating] Some had families waiting, for
others their only family would be the men they bled beside, there
were no bands, flags no honor guards to welcome them home, they
went to war because their country ordered them to, but in the end
they fought not for country or their flag, they fought for each
other
We who have seen war will never stop seeing it, in the silence
of the night we will always hear the screams. So this is our
story... For we were soldiers once and young.