GC5MRZ4 Oak Hill Cemetery (Traditional Cache) in Iowa, United States created by SuperGoober

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Hidden : 2/14/2015

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Welcome to the Oak Hill Cemetery Cache.
Please be respectful while you visit this beautiful and peaceful place.

The Cache should be a pretty easy find.
You will be looking for a nice camouflaged bison container.

Famous Interments
Dr Byron H. McKeeby
Birth: Jul. 10, 1867
Birchardville Susquehanna County
Pennsylvania, USA
Death: Jan. 6, 1950
Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa, USA

Folk figure.
As the model for the solemn farmer in Grant Wood's iconic painting, "American Gothic" (1930).
He is one of the famous figures in modern portrait art although his name is little known.
He studied dentistry at the University of Iowa, graduating in 1894 and founding his first practice in Winthrop, IA.
He moved to Cedar Rapids in 1901 where he established an office which he maintained almost until his death.
It was here that Grant Wood, who was one of McKeeby's patients, approached him to model as the father of the farmer's daughter (modeled by Wood's own sister, Nan) in what is now one of the most famous and recognizable works of American art in the world.
Gravestone Location: N 41° 58.577 W 091° 38.667

Charles Amory Clark
Birth: Jan. 26, 1841
Sangerville Piscataquis County, Maine, USA
Death: Dec. 22, 1913
Cedar Rapids. Linn County. Iowa, USA

Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient.
Awarded for actions as 1st Lieutenant and Adjutant on the 6th Maine Volunteer Infantry at Brooks Ford, Virginia, on May 4, 1863.
His citation reads "Having voluntarily taken command of his regiment in the absence of its commander, at great personal risk and with remarkable presence of mind and fertility of resource, led the command down an exceedingly precipitous embankment to the Rappahannock River, and by his gallantry, coolness, and good judgement in the face of the enemy saved the command from capture or destruction.
Gravestone Location: N 41° 58.512 W 091° 38.811

James William Good
Birth: Sep. 24, 1866
Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa, USA
Death: Nov. 18, 1929
Washington, District of Columbia
District Of Columbia, USA

US Congressman, Presidential Cabinet Secretary.
Gravestone Location: N 41° 58.596 W 091° 38.671

John Taylor Hamilton
Birth: Sep. 16, 1843
Death: Jan. 25, 1925

US Congressman.
Elected to represent Iowa's 5th District in the United States House of Representatives.
He served from 1891 to 1893.
He also served as a Mayor of Cedar Rapids in 1878, Member of the Iowa State House of Representatives from 1885 to 1891.
Speaker of the Iowa State House of Representatives from 1890 to 1891, and as a Candidate for the Governor of Iowa in 1914.
Gravestone Location: N 41° 58.515 W 091° 38.822

Pratt, Henry O.
Birth: Feb. 11, 1838
Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis County, Maine, USA
Death: May 22, 1931
Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa, USA

US Congressman.
He graduated from Harvard University and was admitted to the bar in Mason City, Iowa.
During the Civil War, he enlisted in the Union Army serving in Company B, 32nd Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, until he was discharged in 1863.
He commenced the practice of law in Charles City, Iowa and was superintendent of public schools of Floyd County in 1868 and 1869.
From 1870 to 1872, he was a member of the State house of representatives.
In 1873, he was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving until 1877.
Not a candidate for re-nomination he was appointed president of the Republican State convention at Des Moines, Iowa, in 1877.
He studied for the ministry, was ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church and continued ministerial duties until he retired in 1918.
Gravestone Location: N 41° 58.506 W 091° 38.711

Good Luck and have fun!

Winter / Snow Rating: Difficulty: 2.0 out of 5

Terrain: 2.0 out of 5

(1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Hc nobhg 6 1/2 srrg

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)

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