WIH BAILLARGEON and many more Mystery Cache
WIH BAILLARGEON and many more
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The cache is not at the posted coordinates. All the information you need to solve the puzzle is on this page.
I wanted to thank Balrgn for a little help (ok a lot of help) on a oopsie so I thought I would do some research to see if there was a Woman in History (WIH) for which a cache could be developed with his family name. Google found an interesting reference that was not terrible far away. It involves and historical event.
St. Hyacinth is Westbrook’s active Catholic cemetery and it has a preponderance of French family stones in the older section. In keeping with the French history of the City of Westbrook, they have recorded these transcriptions in French as written on the stones. Around the turn of the century there was a section of burials marked only by a numbered Iron Cross; the name was recorded in the priest’s record book but not on the cross. According to City lore, during WW II the iron crosses were removed and the iron donated to the war effort and burial sites were no longer evident. Thanks to Phil LaViolet of Westbrook who has a copy of the priest’s record book, they have included the listings for these burials (identified in this transcription by a cross [+]). This data was translated from the original handwritten French so there may be errors in spelling and translation. Most of these ‘Iron Cross’ names do not have any stones marking their burial places. * Denotes that no stone was seen in 2002 but names were on earlier transcriptions. If data was not taken from the stone but from cemetery records or obituaries, the entry is so marked.
http://www.westbrookhistoricalsociety.org/Cemeteries/St.HyacinthCem.pdf
Some names involved in this history rang a bell.
BAILLARGEON Anna* d Aug 1969
BAILLARGEON Anysie Jan 28, 1893 - Jul 14, 1919
BAILLARGEON Constance Mar 3, 1934 - no date "Married Nov 20, 1953"
BAILLARGEON Irene Oct 4, 1923 - Feb 1, 1925
BAILLARGEON Marie Paule Yvette *+ c/o Benjamin Baillargeon & Marie Anne Labarre; d. 10 Jun 1910, age 5 wks
BAILLARGEON Melande* d May 1963
BAILLARGEON Nichole M. Jun 12, 1985 - Aug 12, 2000 "Angel forever"
BAILLARGEON Rose Dec 18, 1903 - Dec 21, 1964
All the information you need to solve this puzzle can be found on this page.
N 43° 40.ABC W 070° 20.DE0
A=The Iron Crosses were melted down to make bullets in WW-A
B= The Cemetary is located in
3=Westbrook Maine
4=Westbrook NH
C= BAILLARGEON Marie Paule Yvette died at C weeks of age
D= BAILLARGEON Anysie Jan 28, 1893 - Jul 14, 191D
E=BAILLARGEON Constance Mar 3, 1934 - no date "Married Nov 20, 195E"
NOTE: while this cache is not inside the cemetery... cemeteries are off limits at night: "A person is guilty of criminal trespassing if that person enters or remains in a cemetery or burial ground at any time between 1/2 hour after sunset and 1/2 hour before sunrise the following day, unless that person enters or remains during hours in which visitors are permitted to enter or remain by municipal ordinance or, in the case of a privately owned and operated cemetery, by posting. Violation of this paragraph is a Class E crime".
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/17-A/title17-Asec402.html
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(Decrypt)
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