“INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST”
The Indiana Spirit Quest series of
geocaches will take you to a number of historic cemeteries
built by Hoosier Pioneers. In just over a year, the quest has grown
to over a hundred forty caches hidden in eighteen 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! 169 cacher teams have logged over 1,935
finds.
Pioneer Cemetery (Photo by LEAD DOG)
INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST
#148
”JIM!"
Welcome to Hoverstock Cemetery, south of
Zanesville, in Union Township, Wells County. This township was
opened up for White Settlement in 1846. Prior to that it had been
part of a Miami Indian Reservation. (We politely asked them to move
out West.) There are forty Crows laid to rest here, and 24
Hoopgarners but only four Hoverstocks. The land for this cemetery
was donated by William and Margaret Hoverstock, and the first
burial occured in 1860, that of Allen Knight. Buried here
is:
JIM
WILLIAMS
RAISED BY GUS WILLIAMS
FIRST NEGRO BURIED IN WELLS COUNTY
AGE 12
altho I didn't see it, since I didn't walk this entire large
cemetery, the records say his stone reads: "Ni**er Jim", and is
located on the "Town Lot" which I assume would be the potter's
field. ,
Some of the other Veterans buried here include:
ROBERT CLARK CO. G 101st IND INF (CW)
HENRY HARRISON DIFFENDORFER CRPL. CO. G 101st IND INF (CW)
CHARLES F. ESPICH (1818-1901) CORP. CO. K OHIO INF (CW)
DANIEL FISHER (1826-1905) PROBABLY CO. G 45th IND INF (cw)ELIAS
KOHR (1847-1928) CO. D 107th IND INF (CW)
W.B. KRESS CO. D 75th IND INF (CW)
DON MCBRIDE (1894-1998 0) WAGR US ARMY (WWI)
AMOS M. WARD (1845-1932) CO. A 79th OHIO INF (CW)
JAMES L. BLAISING A1C USAF VIETNAM 1-19-51 8-20-72 (Not on
Wall)
Bill & Marge Hoverstock's Vault Statues
The cache container is a
small 35mm film canister. 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.
DON'T BE FOOLED BY CHEEP IMITATIONS!! None
genuine without this official 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 following ingenious geocachers:
The SixDogTeam, Kodiak Kid, THE
SHADOW, Team Shydog and Rupert2.
NIGHT CACHING IS NOT ALLOWED ON ISQ'S