WSQ 76/77 SCC Seneca St. John & United Bretheran Multi-Cache
WSQ 76/77 SCC Seneca St. John & United Bretheran
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A three-stage multicache with a short drive from beginning to
final.
The posted coordinates for this cache will take you a stone in St.
John/Evangelical Lutheran cemetery. This stone would have
originally had a sculpture of the Bible perched among a number of
columns. The Bible is gone, but the columns remain. The number of
columns in the stone = A. Then head off to the second waypoint
posted. (44 47.438 / 88 52.726)
The second waypoint will take you to a field of headstones in
Evangelical United Bretheran cemetery. In this field, you will find
a number of 'lectern' stones, with a podium and the Bible, as
pictured below. Count up the number of these particular stones in
the cemetery. There are different sized ones, so be sure you count
them all, but only count the stones where there is a Bible on a
TALL podium, about the size of the ones you are standing by and
that are pictured. The number of lectern stones = B.
The cache is at N44 4B.437 / W88 5A.711. If the coordinates you
come up with take you out of the cemetery you are in, go back and
re-count the lecterns!
There are many rural cemeteries in Wisconsin. Geocaching is a great
way to get out and see some of these remote places, discover some
interesting and unique markers, and to help ensure that those that
have gone before us are not forgotten. With cemetery caches, the
cache container is not hidden on or connected in any way to any
grave site or marker. Occasionally, some information from a marker
may be used to obtain final cache coordinates. Please be respectful
of the cemetery and anyone visiting it.
About the WSQ-SCC Series WSQ stands for "Wisconsin Spirit
Quest, which is used by many Wisconsin cemetery cache owners. SCC
stands for Shawano County Cemeteries, and the number relates to a
position on a master cemetery map. The name after SCC is the name
of the Township, then comes the name of the cemetery.
As we travelled around Shawano County while Geocaching, we would
occasionally come across “lonely and forgotten”
cemeteries. These are places that were once affiliated with a
church that has long since dissolved, formerly private cemeteries
that have fallen to community ownership, and other places that time
seems to be passing by.
As we looked into these places, we discovered that in fact there
are at least 115 cemeteries in Shawano County, and 99 of them are
publicly accessible and/or publicly owned. It is our intention to
bring new visitors to as many of these places as possible and
remember those who have gone before us. You just might find a
long-lost relative or two.
Therefore, these caches are designed to be easy to find, generally
consist of a container and log only, and focus on out-of-the-way,
rural cemeteries. Also, any multi-stage caches are designed to
bring you to special features of a particular cemetery.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
[The log is in a matchstick container in the larger cache container. Do not take the matchstick container.]Gur ybt vf va n zngpufgvpx pbagnvare va gur ynetre pnpur pbagnvare. Qb abg gnxr gur zngpufgvpx pbagnvare.