Hunsaker Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 8/10/2008
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Another Beautiful resting place we had no idea was here.

Cache is located on the outside of the fence. If you chose to go inside you will see the resting places of some of this areas pioneers.

Joseph Hunsaker came here in 1847 with his wife, Elizabeth. He died in 1869,at the age of 70, and was memorialized in an article in the "Pacific Christian Advocate."

"As a neighbor, he was kind and obliging; as a citizen, peaceable and philanthropic; as a Christian, consistent but reserved."

His wife died five years before him. Elizabeth 's resting place is marked by a large headstone with a 14-line epitaph. The tablet broke some years ago and a few lines were lost in the repair, but family records preserve it in its entirety:

Wife of Joseph Hunsaker which she remained to her death. As a companion she was kind and attentive, as a mother she was tender and affectionate, as a neighbor she was esteemed most by those who knew her best; as a Christian she was devotedly pious and dearly manifesting to the last that she had lain up her treasure in heaven. She has gone to her reward Reader, are you prepared to meet her? There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

Joseph and Elizabeth lie near the middle of the cemetery, along with at least 11 other Hunsakers. Adams, Edger, Farlow and Robbins also are common names among the markers. The cemetery is nestled on a hillside about eight miles southeast of Salem off Parrish Gap Road . It is surrounded by a chain-link fence, and large fir trees and roadside growth cloak it from passers-by.

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