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 twenty
caches hidden in twenty-two Indiana counties, and the hiders have
grown to nine cacher teams, six of which are comprised of A Man and
His Dog... and one who is a Dog and her Woman. 390 cacher teams
have logged over 4,556 finds.
INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST #219
”Jacob's Mill"
Welcome to the Union Chapel Cemetery,
Washington Township, Marion County. This is a large and very well
kept cemetery and is listed in the Cemetery and Burial Grounds
Registry of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. You will
find several pioneer cemeteries here directly behind the Union
Chapel Church.
This monument marks the grave of Marion County
Pioneer Jacob Whitinger and his family. Whitinger was one of the
earliest settlers of this area in 1821. He owned and operated the
only grist mill in the area.
This is the grave of Francis M Pursell of Company A
of the 70th Regiment of the Indiana Volunteers, Civil War. He was
wounded May 15th, 1864 at the battle of Resaca, Georgia and died
June 25 of that same year.
This is the grave of George W. Shields, another loss
of the Civil War on February 3, 1864. Shields was with Company K of
the 14th Indiana Infantry.
The cache
container is is a cammo 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, Cache Commando and
bbsurveyors."