Indiana Spirit Quest #347: Unknown Traveler Traditional Cache

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 three hundred seventy caches hidden in thirty-eight Indiana counties, and two Ohio counties, and the hiders have grown to eighteen cacher teams, most of which of which are comprised of Dogs and their Humans. Over 800 cacher teams have logged over 9,300 finds. One cache machine found 102 ISQ caches in a single day (daylight hours only).

Digital Photographs by Lead Dog

Welcome to The LaFontaine IOOF cemetery, in Liberty Township, Wabash County. This is a large place and it will take you some time to walk it if you choose to do so. Across the highway is a large Elevator complex, and the cemetery is flanked by corn fields and another old cemetery across a road. This place contains a mixture of old tombstones as well as more recent modern markers...

I had to recreate the description for this cache page, as the entire text mysteriously vanished during one of the edits, a result of groundspeaks' brilliant choice of html editors which is EXTREMEly user unfriendly and rather a joke in the industry. But there were good reasons, and most hiders don't bother with html on their pages anyway. Oh, well.

The population of La Fontaine is approximately 909. The approximate number of families is 354.

La Fontaine is positioned 40.67 degrees north of the equator and 85.72 degrees west of the prime meridian.

UNKNOWN TRAVELER

Many times you will see a government Civil War marker, with the vet's wife's marker next to it of the same size and material with similar engraving. In this case, however, the wife's marker also features the 'sheild" surrounding her engraving, and this is not approriate unless she too, was a Veteran, but that is not indicated here. Somebody goofed.

Oliver Lewis Harrell, Private, Son of Moses and Elizabeth Harrell; born March 22, 1892, Wabash County, Ind. Employed in Marion, Ind.; where he entered service February 21, 1918. Sent to Camp Greene, N. C.; assigned to Company A, 47th Infantry. Overseas in May, 1918. Fought in Aisne-Marne Offensive, Toul Sector, St. Mihiel Offensive, and Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Killed in action October 1, 1918. Buried in American Cemetery near Septsarges Wood, Grave No. 9, France. Survived by widow, Myrtle Miller Harrell, Marion, Ind.

FIND LOGS ON THIS CACHE THAT INDICATE NIGHT CACHING WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT NOTICE!! OH, YEAH!

The cache container is a 35mm film can.. Please press lid on correctly and tightly. BYOP. You MUST sign the log to claim a smilie. If you cache at night, or don't sign the log, or reveal the additional hint in your log, or don't fulfill any additional requirements, your find log will be deleted without notice... 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. xxxx

None genuine without this official SixDogTeam seal. Digital photographs taken by Lead Dog, (C) 2005 by RikSu Outfitters with Kodak equipment, unless otherwise noted.

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