“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 thirty caches hidden in thirty-three
Indiana counties, and two Ohio counties, and the hiders have grown
to sixteen cacher teams, most of which of which are comprised of
Dogs and their Humans. Over 700 cacher
teams have logged over 8,000 finds. One cache machine found 102 ISQ
caches in a single day (daylight hours only).
(Photos by Wishbone86)
INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST
#362
"Chickamauga"
Welcome to Shelton
Cemetery located just off Old U.S 31, a stone throws from the town
of Rochester, in rural Rochester Township, Fulton County. This is a
small cemetery that has burials dating back to the 1850’s and is
now inactive. Buried here are at least two soldiers from the Civil
War that died during their service and one Revolutionary War
Veteran.
David C. Shelton, the son of Lemuel and Catharine Shelton,
was a soldier that gave his life to defend the Union. He
volunteered on August 7th, 1862 and served in Co D 87 Reg. Ind.
Vol. David was mortally wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga, in
the southern state of Georgia, on September 20, 1863. After the
battle he was moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he died from
his wounds on October 8th, 1863.
Also buried in this cemetery is a John Johnson who fought in
the American Revolution. He was drafted three times during the war.
The first time was February 1779, and once again in the fall of
1780, and lastly in August of 1781. He was involved in the Siege of
Yorktown in the fall of 1781. In 1791 he moved from Virginia to
Kentucky and remained there until 1827. He then moved to
Indianapolis to be with his children. He came to Fulton County with
his family, and applied for bounty lands available to veterans at
Rochester on April 2, 1855. Unfortunately, the headstone for John
Johnson is not located at his grave and is now leaning against the
tree in the picture.
FIND LOGS ON THIS CACHE THAT INDICATE NIGHT CACHING
WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT
NOTICE!
The cache container is
about the size of a peanut butter jar.. 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. Say a prayer for our
brave troops, fighting overseas. God Bless
America!
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