Michigan Spirit Quest #14- "No Use For Time" Traditional Cache

The Michigan Spirit Quest series of geocaches will take you to a number of historic cemeteries built by MICHIGAN Pioneers. This series is inspired by and a continuation of the Indiana Spirit Quest caches created by SixDogTeam. In just over a year and a half, the SPIRIT QUEST has grown to over Five hundred fifty caches and the hiders have grown to Twenty cacher teams, most of which are comprised of Dogs and their Humans. Over 1,000 cachers have logged over 12,500 finds. One cache machine found 102 ISQ caches in a single day (daylight hours only).

(Photos by Wolverine Warriors)

Welcome to Oak grove Cemetery. This is a large cemetery with two caches hidden in it, one for the veterans and this one for a woman who lived a long wonderful life and for a man whose life was cut short.

Scott Brayton (February 20, 1959 - May 17, 1996) was a race car driver in the American open-wheel circuit. He raced many times at the Indianapolis 500, beginning in 1981. During the mid-1980s, Brayton helped introduce the powerful Buick stock-block V-6 (which his father's firm, Brayton Engineering, was a major developer of the race engine) to Indianapolis. In 1985, he qualified 2nd but finished 30th when the engine expired. He would not finish the race again until 1989, when he scored his best finish at the Speedway, 6th place but seven laps down. He would equal this finishing position in 1993, driving a Lola-Cosworth for Dick Simon Racing. When Buick pulled out of IndyCar racing in 1993, John Menard continued developing the engine under the Menard V-6 name.

Brayton, now without a regular ride in the IndyCar series, joined the Indy-only team in 1994. Their belief in the powerplant paid off when Brayton won his first pole position in 1995, at an average speed of 231.604 mph. Again, persistent problems with the Menard engine relegated him to 17th place at the finish. In 1996, Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner Tony George established the Indy Racing League, and the Menard Team signed up to compete in their first full season of IndyCar racing. Because the established "stars" of open-wheel racing competed in the rival CART series, Brayton (and rookie teammate, Tony Stewart) were considered legitimate contenders for the IRL title. After a bad start to the season, Brayton asserted his competitiveness by winning his second Indy pole after a dramatic qualifying session in which he withdrew an already-qualified car to get a second chance at taking the top spot. Unfortunately, he would never get to start the race. During a practice run on May 17, Brayton, who was driving a backup struck tragedy. The backup car blew a tire going into turn two, spun and hit the outside retaining wall at over 230 mph, and Brayton was killed by the severe impact. Following Brayton's death, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway announced a new trophy dedicated to the driver who showed the most tenacity during the race meet.

Maude Farris was born January 21, 1887 and died March 18, 2002. Maude was the oldest living recognized person in the world from June 2001 until she died in March 2002. Maude was one-hundred fifeteen and 56 days old when she died. To date she is the 19th oldest person recorded to live in the world. She was born in Morley, Michigan, but moved to Stueben county, Indiana in 1891. She was 16 years old when, with her mother's permission, she married Jason Ferris, who worked in the livery stable of a hotel, in 1903. That was also the year she first saw an automobile. She and her husband, who later changed the spelling of his name to Farris though not all of their children did, moved to Coldwater, Michigan in 1925, where the last of their seven children was born. After his death she married Walter Luse. Maude reportedly credited an intake of boiled dandelion greens and fried fish as the reason for her long life.

The cache container is a cammoed tupperware container. BYOP. .The cache is not located near a grave... If you find a fallen US flag, please stick it back in the ground or replace it. 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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