INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST
Photos by Rupert2
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 and a half, the quest has grown to over a two hundred fifteen
caches hidden in twenty-two Indiana counties, and the hiders have
grown to eight cacher teams, six of which are comprised of A Man
and His Dog... and one who is a Dog and her Woman. 378 cacher teams
have logged over 4,100 finds.
INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST #217
”Field
Mail"
Today Cache Commando takes us to the Walnut
Grove Cemetery, Franklin Township, Hendricks County. I have not
been able to find this cemetery marked on any maps with the
exception of the USDA soils report for Hendricks County. To reach
the cemetery you can either park at N39 36.761 W086 37.365 or IF
YOU HAVE A 4x4 you can use the cemetery access path during
non-growing seasons. Please try to avoid harming the crops during
growing season. This cemetery is surrounded by a fence and
couriously enough has a gate and mailbox at the enterance. The
caretaker uses the mailbox to collect comments from
visitors.
The first obvious site one encounters upon entering
the cemetery gate is the grave of Patriot Mordecai miller who was
born on Dec 22 1755 in North Carolina and died February 12, 1843.
At the age of fiveteen he entered the Army as a substitute for
David Henderson in 1770. The object of this expedition was to guard
frontier against the Cherokee Indians for the term of thirty days.
Following, we was drafted for several more short terms of service
until he volunteered for seven years of service with the South
Carolina Militia fighting the British. Miller died in Morgan county
but was buried in Hendricks Co.
The above pictured grave is of John Wallace
(1746-1834 a Private from the North Carolina Militia. He enlisted
in 1777 for a 3-year tour of duty in Duplin, North Carolina.
Wallace served under Capt Joseph RHODES, Capt Charles STEWARD,
Colonel PATTON, Capt ARMSTRONG and General DEKALB.
The cache
container is is a small bottle. Please leave it at least as
well concealed, if not better, than you found it. If you find
fallen or worn US flags at the graves of veterans, please
take a moment to upright or replace them. Dispose of worn US
flags in a respectable manner. If you find the
coordinates to be a little off, do not hesitate to post a
waypoint with your log. As always, be respectful, and
cache in, trash out. God Bless our troops in harm's
way.
WARNING: FIND LOGS ON THIS CACHE THAT INDICATE
NIGHT CACHING WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT
NOTICE!
"Indiana Spirit Quest" is brought to you by the
following fellows of GEOISQ*: The SixDogTeam, Kodiak Kid, THE
SHADOW, Team Shydog, Rupert2, Torry, ~Mystery Dog~, Team
Tigger International and Cache
Commando."