WSQ Blinn Cemetery Traditional Cache
MASKinWI: So long old friend
Please note Use of geocaching.com services is subject to the terms and conditions
in our disclaimer.
Blinn Family Cemetery
"Please be respectful of your surroundings".
As this is classified as a cemetery cache, please note it is not hidden on any grave markers or sites. If there is a service going on, or folks are visiting their loved ones when you arrive, please be respectful and come back later. Your understanding and compassion for those folks will be appreciated.
Congrats to the 4Adventurers for the first to find!
Blinn FamilyCemetery
Philopena Blinn purchased 80 acres of good agricultural land in the Town of Washington [La Crosse County Register of Deeds, volume 18 page 489] on June 16, 1860, from Julius & Wilhelmina Keil.
Philopena and her husband Theobold farmed this
area throughout their adult lives. The small family plot is
situated just south of Hwy. 33 on Hass Road.
The Town of Washington now takes responsibility for the maintenance of the cemetery. Theobald was a signer of the incorporation papers of the First (German) Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Town of Washington on March 16, 1866 [La Crosse County Register of Deeds, Church
Incorporation, volume 1 page 33], and was active in town politics holding several offices. Disease was often a killer of young children, and touched almost every family during the pioneer era. While it is not known if an epidemic hit the Blinn family as it did their neighbors the Steins, the gravestone in the cemetery sadly tells of the early deaths of five of the Blinn's children. One central stone recounts dates and names of the family, and separate small stones mark each individual. Theobold lived to be 63 years old, dying in 1888, while his wife outlived him another eight years. Written in English is the the following information from the
monument:
Theobold Blinn, June 15,1888 Aged 63 years Husband of
Philopena
Philopena Blinn, June 4,1896 Wife of Theobold Blinn
Son 1899
Elizabeth Blinn Aged 12 years
Charlie Blinn Aged 6 years
Rosa Blinn Aged 5 years
Jacob Blinn Aged 24 years
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Guvf bar znl fghzc lbh.
Treasures
You'll collect a digital Treasure from one of these collections when you find and log this geocache:
Loading Treasures