“INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST”
The Indiana Spirit Quest series of geocaches
will take you to a number of historic cemeteries built by
Hoosier Pioneers. In less than a year, the quest has grown to over
a hundred twenty caches hidden in fifteen Indiana counties, and the
hiders have grown to five cacher teams, four of which are comprised
of A Man and His Dog... PRAIRIEPARTNERS
has set a record for one-day ISQ finds on 10-16-2004 at 55! 125
cacher teams have logged over 1,700 finds.
ISQ STATS as of
02/12/05
TOP TEN FINDS
1 BLUEGILLFISHERMAN 84
2 BUDDAMAN 84
3 AWSOME EV 74
4 TEAM TIGGER INTERNATIONAL 74
5 J PLUS 14 73
7 SWEETIE PIE 65
8 ITZME 64
9 PRARIE PARTNERS 55
10. TWO NUT CACHES 52
FTF's
2. 16 --Bluegillfisherman
3. 14 --Buddaman
4. 8 --Pinestrail
Pioneer Cemetery (All photos copyright 2005 by LEAD DOG)
INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST
#124
”NINE MILE!"
Welcome to Albright Cemetery in LaFayette
Township, Allen County at Nine Mile, Indiana. The cemetery is
located at the rather bizarre intersection of three major roads,
called Five Points. This was a German Evangelical Church burial
ground (German Methodists or "Albrights"). Earliest burial date is
1855.
Jacob Albright
The keel for the ship of the Evangelical movement was laid by
Jacob Albright, who was born near Pottstown, Pennsylvania, in 1759.
After serving as a drummer and a guard for Hessian prisoners in the
war of the American Revolution, settled in Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, where he farmed and made roofing tiles for barns.
When several of Albright's children died in 1790 during an epidemic
of dysentery, he experienced a spiritual crisis.
Albright had been raised as a Lutheran, but when his children
died he found no firmness in the formal faith he had learned in
catechetical class. Then two of the followers of Otterbein--one of
whom had conducted the funeral services of Albright's
children--spoke to him about the steadiness in face of death that
comes from a personal experience of God's love. Albright searched
for such assurance until it came in the summer of 1791 during a
religious meeting at a neighbor's home. Of this experience he said:
"All fear and anxiety of heart disappeared. Joy and blessed peace
inbreathed my breast. God gave witness to my spirit that I had
become a child of God."
After this personal, religious experience, similar to those of
Boehm, Otterbein, and Wesley, Albright joined a Methodist group,
attracted by their fervency of worship and disciplined approach to
organization, but his lack of fluency in English made it difficult
for him to participate fully. And it was the Methodist refusal at
that time, 1796, to begin a ministry among German-speaking people
that impelled Albright to preach. "The Lord granted me his
blessing," he later recalled, "so that I found entrance to preach
in churches, school houses, and private homes." His first groups of
followers were organized in 1800. With their organization came the
beginnings of the Evangelical movement.
Preaching and forming classes among his converts in the German
settlements, he was ordained a minister (1803) by representatives
from these classes and was elected bishop in 1807. The movement,
unrecognized by the Methodists, did not take the name Evangelical
Association until after Albright’s death. The Evangelical
Church in 1946 united with the United Brethren in Christ to form
the Evangelical United Brethren Church
Across Winters Road, west a couple of houses, you will find
ROLLER(AKA VOLTZ) CEMETERY (1868), about the size of a town lot,
with about a dozen stones. The five-two-eight rule precludes a
cache there, plus it's really too close to a residence...
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ROLLER CEMETERY
NIGHT CACHING IS NOT ALLOWED ON
ISQ'S.
The cache container is a 35mm
film can. BYOP. Park with extreme 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.
DON'T BE FOOLED BY IMITATIONS!!None genuine
without SixDogTeam seal. 35mm photographs taken by Lead Dog,
copyright 2005 by RikSu Outfitters unless otherwise noted. (Photos
taken with 1970 Mamiya-Sekor 500DTL SLR) We are the SixDogTeam and
we approve of this cache.
"Indiana Spirit Quest"
is brought to you by The
SixDogTeam, Kodiak Kid, THE SHADOW, Team Shydog and
Rupert2.