“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 a year and a half, the quest has
grown to over three hundred caches hidden in twenty-seven Indiana
counties, and two Ohio counties, and the hiders have grown to
eleven cacher teams, most of which of which are comprised of
Dogs and their Humans. Over 600 cacher
teams have logged over 7,000 finds. One cache machine found 102 ISQ
caches in a single day (daylight hours only).
(Photos by Shadow)
INDIANA
SPIRIT QUEST #305
"KINGS
ROW"
Welcome to Hooper Cemetery, Swan Township,
Noble County. Many of our English sirnames denote an occupation. A
Hooper was the fellow who put the hoops on barrels. He worked for a
Cooper, the guy who made the barrels. If he did both, I suppose he
was a Hooper-Cooper. Oh, well , Listen to what the SHADOW has to
say about this
place:
This cache will take you to
an old, but active cemetery. It's rural and secluded location will
afford you ample privacy during your visit. A nice peaceful area
for taking a few moments, is located at the far southwest corner,
as it's heavily shaded and sort of separated from the main area.
Just look for the “King's Row”. There, also, you may see the oldest
marker I found, dated
1845.
Surprisingly, I did not see
any identifiable Civil War veterans markers. I'm sure they are here
though. There is one from the War of 1812: Nathaniel Clary of a
Maryland unit. There is a newer stone set with unit information,
but his original is in remarkably good condition, with everything
quite
legible.
A WWI veteran is buried
here as well. He has a cast iron plaque with unit information
that's interesting. -–THE
SHADOW
Nine Kings In A Row
War of 1812 Vet
FIND LOGS ON THIS CACHE THAT INDICATE
NIGHT CACHING WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT
NOTICE!
The cache container
is a small loc-n-loc deal. BYOP. .The cache is not located
near a grave... If you find a fallen US flag, please stick it
back in the ground. As always, please be respectful, and cache
in, trash out. xxxxx
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Spirit Quest" is brought to you by the following fellows of
GEOISQ*: SixDogTeam (Earthdog Patrick, Lead
Dog, Wheel Dog) Kodiak Kid, THE SHADOW, Team Shydog, Rupert2,
Torry, ~Mystery Dog~, Team Tigger International, Cache Commando,
bbSurveyors and Dover Duo. If you are interested in spreading the
Quest to your neck of the woods AND WOULD LIKE TO JOIN US, email
SixDogTeam.
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the Indiana Spirit
Quest
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