“INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST”
Pioneer Cemetery (All photos by The Shadow)
The Indiana Spirit Quest series of
geocaches will take you to a number of small, rural, historic
cemeteries built by Hoosier Pioneers. In less than a year, the
quest has grown to over a hundred caches hidden in nine northeast
Indiana counties, and the hiders have grown to three cacher teams,
each comprised of A Man and His Dog...The Indiana Division
of Historic Preservation & Archeology claims there are over
100,000 cemeteries and burial grounds in Indiana. Personally we
think this is an absurd figure, but since they're a part of the
IDNR, they MUST be right...so we're at the one-tenth of one percent
mark and climbing! PRAIRIEPARTNERS has set
a record for one-day ISQ finds on 10-16-2004 at 55! 106 cacher
teams have logged over 1,543 finds.
ISQ STATS as of
01/04/05
TOP TEN FINDS
1. 84 --Bluegillfisherman
2. 81 --Buddaman
3. 74 --JPlus14
5. 65 --Sweetie Pie
6. 64--Team Tigger International/Awsome Ev
7. 63--Itzme
8. 55 --Prairepartners
9. 48 --One Angel & Family
10. 41 -- Pinestrail/ Twonutcaches/ Just Mee/ Hutt
11. 40 --Mattster
FTF's
2. 16 --Bluegillfisherman
3. 14 --Buddaman
4. 8 --Pinestrail
INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST
#101
”BARKERS CHAPEL!"
The Shadow has selected Barkers Chapel
Cemetery, Section Ten, Smithfield Twp., DeKalb County, for your
caching pleasure. Listen up to what he has to say:
A new church building
stands across the road from this cemetery. I can remember the old
wooden structure that preexisted this one. You can park on the wide
shoulder of the road or or use the church lot , but watch the
traffic, as the cemetery is on a State Highway. Around the corner
on the county road may be best. This cemetery is Quite old and
rather Small. -- THE SHADOW
Yes, that's Barker's Chapel UMC across the
street. We wonder if the original church was named for REV. EDWARD
BARKER (1806 - 1872) who is buried here? There are about 100 souls
laid to rest here. The oldest burial record we could find for this
cemetery which is also known by the name of the community SUMMIT,
was for SIMON S. FEGKY, died. 1/21/1832, aged 73 years. and another
from the 1830's -- MOSES MORTORFF, (1812 - 1835) , but most
interrments seem to be after 1860. The last burial was in 1943, but
only a handful occurred in the 20th century. A government marker
for a civil war vet was found:
Jos.
Penick
Co.? 36? Ind. Inf.
The nearby town of ASHLEY has an unusual paint scheme for their
water tower, worth checking out!
The cache container is a
small camo'd match holder. 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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seal. All fair-to-middlin' 35mm photographs taken by Lead Dog,
copyright 2004 RikSu Outfitters unless otherwise noted. (Photos
taken with 1970 Mamiya-Sekor 500DTL SLR) We are the SixDogTeam and
you are not and we approve of this cache. Don't mean nuthin'!! It's
like a frog on a lillie in the middle of the pond. Don't make a
particle of difference, one way or the other. Maybe it does, maybe
it doesn't, but we don't cotton to that!
"Here I stand,
Watching the Tide go out.
The sighing of the waves,
The wailing of the wind.
Why, oh why, must I go on this way?
Shall I just be a lonely
Stranger On The Shore?"
NIGHT CACHING IS NOT ALLOWED ON ISQ'S