“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! 173 cacher teams have logged over 1,940
finds.
Pioneer Cemetery (Photo by LEAD DOG)
INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST
#153
”EDGE OF LEESBURG?"
Welcome to LEESBURG Cemetery, on the west
edge of town, in Plain Township, Kosciusko County. This county was
named after a Patriot from Europe who fought with George Washington
in the Revolution, and the county seat is named after the Capital
of his country.
I'm so infuriated I can't see straight.
Someday I'll tell you all what the title of this quest is all
about. In the meantime (Serenity Now!!) take a stroll in the old
quarter of this cemetery and you'll no doubt find a lot of really
old tombstones, dating to the 1840's and 1850's. We've searched
every square inch of this place, but that's another
story.
Some of the Veterans buried here, behind
the speakers podium and the flag:
JOHN WATKINS CO. K
74th IND INF (CW)
ELI SAWYER SGT (1844-1936) CO. E 54th ILL INF (CW)
PRESTON W. BROWN CORPL.CO. I 4th MICH CAV
(CW)
The oldest tombstone we saw
was:
RICHARD MASON
died APR 7, 1841
By the way, as long as you're here anyway, why not take a
little cruise thru the village? You'll see the town had the
foresite not to pave over their wonderful cobblestone
streets...Reminds me of one of the houses I had to deed over to one
of my ex-wives--It was on a brick street also--but then again,
that's another other story...
ANGEL POINTS THE WAY TO HEAVEN
Angels
Among other tasks, angels were meant to
accompany the dead to Heaven as well as to provide comfort to those
in mourning. They appeared on graves in the 18th century, usually
as a head with wings carved onto a tombstone. The life-size,
smooth-featured angels found in Victorian cemeteries became common
from the 1880s on. They were usually carved by Italian sculptors
used to making images of the Virgin Mary and who were thought to
handle the human form better than others.
As a symbol angels signaled that the
deceased’s exemplary Christian life had earned them a place
in Heaven, and reminded the family to take comfort in their loved
one being in a better place.
The cache container is
about the size of a 35mm film can. BYOP. Park with care.If
you find a fallen US flag, please stick it back in the ground.
always, please be respectful, and cache in, trash
out
DON'T BE FOOLED BY CRUDDY 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 obsessed geocachers:
The SixDogTeam, Kodiak Kid, THE
SHADOW, Team Shydog and Rupert2.
no night caching