I have driven down this stretch of NC751 many times and seen this cemetery and another like it a mile up the road. They are fairly typical for North Carolina. In her history she was a plantation or large farm state and not everyone made it to church. Not everywhere had a church to make it to. Many families developed their own cemeteries on their property. They are routinely small; a couple of dozen graves at most, and many are on or near major highways - the routes of travel that have been used for the past two centuries.
As I walked around this family plot taking note of the markers and their names and dates I was struck by an oddity along them. This is, undoubtedly, the Atkins family graveyard as all of the markers are Atkins except an infant son and Mr. Edward Hoyt Schwarz. The child's grave is in line with the others, indicating that he is a member of the Atkins family, perhaps the son of a daughter Atkins who married a Wade. But Mr. Schwarz's marker is off to the side and askew, set apart from the others. So who is Edward Hoyt Schwarz and how did he find a place of rest with the Atkins?
Perhaps future research will tell me. Or an enthusiastic cacher whose curiosity has been piqued and does the research for me ....
Until then, please find the actual coordinates of the cache by solving for the missing numbers below. The cache is not near the cemetery. You will have to drive to it.
The cache sits at:
N 35 55. ABC W078 57.XYZ
The digits AB are the combined age of the two people who were born and who died in 1912 minus the age of the person in the cemetery who was born first (the earliest birth date on any marker - 1835) plus 1.
C is the day of the month Robert Aubrey Atkins was born minus the day of the month Eva L. Atkins was born.
XY is Edward Hoyt Schwarz’s age plus 1.
Z is the number of graves without footstones.
Good luck!
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