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“INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST”
The Indiana Spirit Quest series of
geocaches will take you to a number of historic cemeteries and
historic sites built by Hoosier Pioneers. In just two years,
the quest has grown to over four hundred fifty caches hidden in
Indiana, Ohio and Michigan and the hiders have grown to over twenty
cacher teams, most of which of which are comprised of Dogs and
their Humans. Over 975 cacher teams have
logged over 11,700 finds. The most ambitious of many cache machines
found 102 ISQ caches in a single day (daylight hours
only).
Photos by Lead Dog
INDIAN
SPIRIT QUEST #440
"GAERTE"
Welcome to Gaerte Cemetery in Perry
Township, Miami County, Indiana. There are tombstones here dating
back to the 1850's
the rows here run North and South, and are
numbered West to East. In section 2, Row 2, there should be a stone
for "John Garper, a soldier of 1812, Died April 3, 1877, aged 83y
10m 7 d." If it exists , the first person to find it, can upload a
photo of it in a log here, along with coordinates, for an extra
smiley. (some records indicate he is buried in Citizens Cemetery in
Akron, ISQ #1--same deal.)
UPDATE APRIL 2006:
Mad Bee , from Lexington, Ky.
writes:
"I am part of the Barnhisel clan and
have a number of relatives buried here, including my
grandparents.
"One interesting story relating to
one burial is Elizabeth Barnhisel who died in the 1934 at 103. Her
husband Cornelius, died in the Civil War of non-combat reasons, and
is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Upon his death, the
military sent out a letter to his widow to inform her of his
passing, but the letter never arrived. I think it was 40 years or
so later, the letter was found behind a drawer in an old post
office desk and delivered to Elizabeth.
"Most of the Barnhisels are buried in
the SW corner of the cemetery and hers is in this general
vicinity."
KOREAN WAR VETERAN
FARM TRACTOR
FIND LOGS ON THIS CACHE THAT INDICATE
NIGHT CACHING WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT NOTICE!!
The cache container
is a black plastic peanut butter jar. 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...If you think these terms to be
unfair, don't bother to hunt this cache. 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
of our pioneer dead and our beloved Veterans, and cache in,
trash out. Say a XXXXX America!
None genuine without this official SixDogTeam
seal. Photographs taken by Lead Dog, (C) 2006 by RikSu Outfitters,
unless otherwise noted.
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