NOTE WELL:
-As a cemetery cache, the cache is not hidden on or in
connection with any grave stones. However, you will need to visit
various stones in order to obtain information needed to find the
cache.
-Heed the attributes shown for this cache. It may be close
to a mile walk in hilly terrain and involves 10 waypoints. It may
take up to an hour. Not a good cache to try in the winter. It is
not a drive-up cemetery hide.
-Don’t skip steps! Even if you find the right stone out of order,
your calculations will only work right if you are using the
calculated coordinates starting at WP1 and going forward, rather
than what your GPSr might be showing at the time. The stones should
not be hard to find, so if you can't find it quickly, go back and
check your previous calculations.
-Do not remove the hanger of the final cache, just slip the cache
container out of the hanger.
About the cache.
As a follow up to
WSQ A-maze-ing, we bring you another cemetery tour.
This cache is located in Holy Apostles Church Cemetery. This is a
very historic cemetery, and has a large number of Veterans interred
here whose service dates from the Revolutionary War to the Gulf
Wars.
It’s not often that we get a chance to work with the cemetery
caretaker when placing a cache, but that was the case here. He has
been the caretaker here for four years (as of 2009), following in
the footsteps of his father before him. He gave us a first-hand
tour of many of the historic stones in this cemetery, enabling us
to highlight some of those stones in this cache. In turn, we got to
show the caretaker how we were marking the position of these stones
with our GPSr. So if anyone asks you any questions while you are
walking around, just tell them you are some more of those people
who are interested in cemetery history and interesting stones.
Finding the cache.
The posted coordinates will bring you to a marker for James Powlis,
an Oneida Chief and Revolutionary War veteran who is buried
here.
Use these coordinates as your starting point and perform the
calculations shown to find your next point. At that point, perform
the next calculations, and so on, until you find the cache.
Here you go:
WP1 – Revolutionary War marker
From here, your next waypoint is 44 29.A2B 88 10.CAB. A=(The number
of Oneida Chiefs offered commissions as officers in the Continental
Army)/2. James Powlis died March 15, 1B49 at the age of CC.
WP2 – Glass headstone
From here, your next waypoint is 44 29.XXX 88 10.XXX. Using the
glass headstone, take the year of this person’s birth (last three
digits) and add it to your current north, then subtract 952 to get
your new north. Add 20 to your current west to get your new west.
WP3 – Art Deco stone for “Schuyler”
From here, your next waypoint is 44 29.XXX 88 11.XXX. Find
“Harold.” Take the last two digits of Harold's birth year and
multiply by 2. Subtract that from your current north to get your
new north. Subtract his year of death (last three digits) from your
current west, then subtract 19 more to get your new west. (NOTE
that the west now starts with 88 11.)
WP4 – Find “Josiah”
From here, your north stays the same. Add up all the digits in
Josiah's year of death, then add 1 more. Add this result to your
current west to get 88 11.XXX.
WP5 – Solomon.
Solomon was Priest for how many years? Double that number, then
subtract 2. Subtract that result from your current north to get
your new north. Add 70 to your current west to get your new west.
WP6 – Daniel.
Subtract 3 from your current north to get your new north. Daniel
died October XX, 1920. Subtract XX from your current west, then add
5 to get your new west.
WP7 – Edward.
Edward died January XX, 1890. Subtract XX from your current north
to get your new north. Add 41 to your current west to get your new
west.
WP8 – Daughter of Chief Skenahdoah
She died July XX, 1813. Subtract that number from your current
north, then subtract 3 more to get your new north. How old was she
when she died? Add 35. That sum is your new west.
WP9 – Daniel (not the same as WP6)
Daniel died April 2X. Subtract that number from your current north,
then subtract 1 more for your new north. Add the year he died (last
three digits) to your current west, then subtract 859 to get your
new west.
WP10 - The final!