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Indiana Spirit Quest #40: The Last Run Home Traditional Cache

Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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"Dust into dust, and under dust, to lie, sans wine,sans song, sans singer--sans end." OMAR KHAYYAM, Rubaiyat

“INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST”

The Indiana Spirit Quest series of geocaches will take you to a number of small, rural, historic cemeteries built by Hoosier Pioneers in central Indiana. You can map out a route and get a bunch of ‘em in one trip and at the same time learn a little about our history.

INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST #40
”LAST RUN HOME,formerly The Third Tree”

Welcome to Bippus Calvary Cemetery, founded 1888, in Warren Twp., Huntington County.The cemetery is owned by Calvary Evangelical United Brethren Church in Bippus, and there are records for 103 burials. This cache is dedicated to a World War II casualty:

FRANCIS E. SMITH

Indiana

PFC 165 INF

World War II

May 30, 1917 - April 24 1945


SNYDER MONUMENT

NOTE: Attention Female Ball players: When approaching this boneyard, raise your arms and cross your fingers, or you'll never get another hit...

The cache container was a 35mm film canister, if I remember correctly...Now it's a little bit larger plastic bottle. If you find a fallen U.S. flag, please stick it back in the ground, preferably next to a Vet’s Marker. As always, please be respectful, and cache in, trash out.

Cache In Trash Out Cache In - Trash Out! Dogs Allowed all border collies WELCOME!
Available year-round Available year-round Less than 500 Less than 100 ft. from car to cache
Check Tide Check Tide Before Caching Available in Winter Accessible in Winter

NIGHT CACHING IS NOT ALLOWED!!!

GEHEN JETZT JAGD FUR UND FINDEN DEN SCHATZ. VIEL GLUECK!!

NOTE: PHOTOS ORIGINALLY APPEARING ON THIS PAGE WERE DELETED BY GROUNDSPEAK'S NEW HTML EDITOR AND ARE LOST FOREVER. TOUGH, HUH?

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

UBPXRAFZVGU!!

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)