RIP - Blodgett Cemetery Traditional Cache
Jigsaw Jim: Owner allowed retrieval of old cache and new one planted with thier permission outside the gates of the cemetary....Thanks to all who visited this cache....Now, go get the new one!!!
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This is just one in a series of cemeteries loaded with history in the Bitterroot Valley
The name Blodgett was unknown in the Bitterroot country until Lyman J. and Mary A. Blodgett moved into the valley's Woodside area north and west of Hamilton. They had traveled by covered wagon with other wagon train emigrant families from the Salt Lake area of Utah in 1867. Lyman Blodgett "took up" homestead land, built a log house and plowed virgin land to become one of the early farmers.
The trek from Utah knew sadness, for a little daughter, Polly, sickened and died and her little grave was made by the wagon trail. In 1872, a 14-year-old daughter, Mary Catherine, died and hers was the first grave in the acre burial ground the father and mother set aside on their homestead. Lyman Blodgett died in 1908 and his wife Mary died five years earlier in 1903. Fenced, but open to the public the Blodgett Cemetery now has many graves, for the parents and all the 10 sons and daughters and some of their mates are at rest there.
You are looking for a "Commit" losenge container with camoflage tape.
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