“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 eighty caches hidden in twenty-one Indiana
counties, and the hiders have grown to six cacher teams, six of
which are comprised of A Man and His Dog... and one who is a
Dog and her Woman. JPLUS 14 has set a record
for one-day ISQ finds on 4-16-05 at 64! (PRAIRIE PARTNERS has 55);
264 cacher teams have logged over 2,825
finds.
Pioneer cemetery Photos by LEAD DOG)
INDIANA
SPIRIT QUEST #185
”We Love you, Pappy and Mammy"
Welcome to Jones Cemetery, Jackson
Township, Wells County. This rather large rural cemetery's first
burial was that of Sallie Harrold in 1870. It is located across the
highway from the site of the first school house in the township,
built in 1840. There are 35 members of the Jones family interred
here, spanning the 100 year period from 1898 to 1998. There are
also 36 Boxells buried here as well as two GARMINS. See if you can
spot Sylvester "Bud" Nunley's (1946-1997) tombstone.
Some of the Civil War graves we
spotted:
CHRISTOPHER C. M.
BOCK (1834-1909) CO. H 147TH INDIANA
JAMES B. DERRY (1841-1898) CO. B 8TH INDIANA
GEORGE GAISER (1834-1904) CO. A 58TH OHIO
wILLIAM H. DOLLY CO. F. 118TH INDIANA
The coordinates at the top of the page
will get you to the Cemetery. Once there, you must find the large
Jones Cemetery monument with the cube on top balanced on edge. From
there wander thirty feet or so up the road to the Tree that hides
the cache....(This cache is in plain sight)Belay that:The cache was
missing; we've relocated it and changed the coordinates and clue
and it is now upgraded to a small container..
CERTAIN COMFORTS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE CEMETERY SHOULD YOU REQUIRE
THEM (The two tombstones to the left no longer mark grave
sites.)
The cache container
was a 35mm film can.Now it's a plastic peanut jar. 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.
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taken by Lead Dog, (C) 2005 by RikSu Outfitters unless otherwise
noted.
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Night caching is not allowed on ISQ's