“OHIO SPIRIT QUEST
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The Ohio Spirit Quest series of geocaches will
take you to a number of historic cemeteries built by Buckeye
Pioneers. This series is inspired by and a continuation of the
Indiana Spirit Quest caches created by Six Dog Team. In just over
three years, the SPIRIT QUEST has grown to over 550 caches, with
the hiding teams growing as well. The Ohio Spirit Quest has begun
to grow with seven current hides in one Northwest Ohio county, with
four current caching teams, three each with A Man and His
Dog... and one with A Woman and her Dog. Over 1,000 cachers have logged over 25,000 finds. One cache
machine found 111 ISQ caches in a single day (daylight hours
only).
Come with us now for a virtual tour of
this old burial ground via this page, then go out and find the
cache!
Pioneer Cemetery (Photos by THE SHADOW)
OHIO SPIRIT QUEST
#004
”Revenge of the Hoosiers"
This is our fourth Ohio cache. Listen to what
the SHADOW has to say:
Welcome to Billingstown
Cemetery,(est. 1843) Northwest Township, Williams County,
Ohio.
Welcome to Billingstown
Cemetery, Northwest Township, Williams County ,
Ohio.
This is a mid size
cemetery. It is old, but still moderately active. The main part is
set well back from the present roadway, with the road frontage for
new burials. Possibly, some buildings were near the roadway years
ago, occupying the now vacant area.
Civil War veterans’ graves
are numerous here. There are not so many modern war veterans
graves, simply due to the low number of recent
burials.
I found an unusual
placement of two Civil War veterans’ government markers. Both bear
the same surname and are side by side: William & George Gore.
They are placed on the south side, near the edge. They are facing
north, instead of the usual east. They're purposeful placements, as
they are quite well seated into cement bases. I'm really curious as
to the reason for that.
There are at least two
Civil War soldiers memorialized here that died during the war:
Jefferson B. Slaybaugh (Oct 11, 1864) and William W. Lee (Mar 20,
1864). .---THE SHADOW
SIGN
The cache container is a
camo'd match holder. -- 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. Pray for our Soldiers, Marines, Sailors,
CoastGuardsmen and Airmen in harm's way. All photos by THE
SHADOW.
"Ohio Spirit
Quest" is brought to you by the following fellows of
GEOOSQ*: The SixDogTeam, THE SHADOW,
The Moop Along, -Eleanor-. If you are interested in spreading
the quest to your neck of the woods AND WOULD LIKE TO JOIN
US, email The Moop Along with caching resume and at least 25
current notarized references.
*Grand Exalted Order of
the Ohio Spirit Quest
