…THE CACHE IS NOT LOCATED AT
THE POSTED COORDINATES…
The above coordinates are to the
parking area
Merriam-Webster
defines necrology as follows:
ne·crol·o·gy
Pronunciation:
\n?-'krä-l?-je, ne-\
Function:
noun
Inflected Form(s):
plural ne·crol·o·gies
Etymology: New Latin
necrologium, from necr- + -logium (as in
Medieval Latin eulogium eulogy)
Date: 1799
1: obituary
2: a list of the recently dead
And an obituary as:
obituary
Main Entry:
obit·u·ary
Pronunciation:
\?-'bi-ch?-?wer-e,
o-, -'bi-ch?-re\
Function:
noun
Inflected Form(s):
plural obit·u·ar·ies
Etymology: Medieval
Latin obituarium, from Latin obitus death
Date: 1703
:
a notice of a person's death usually
with a short biographical account
— obit·u·ar·ist \-'bi-ch?-?w?r-ist,
-'bi-ch?-rist\ noun
— obituary adjective
As you may have guessed this cache has to do
with obituaries or to be more precise, to do with the biographies
associated with obituaries. This cache is a twist to the common
cemetery cache in that you do not actually visit a cemetery to find
the cache or to gather information to solve the problem. What you
will have to do is visit
www.findagrave.com and read some biographies about some famous,
not-so-famous and interesting people in history to complete the
coordinates to the actual cache location.
Once you are on the website, select
Yearly Necrologies. On the
next page select from the dropdown menu Explorers and Adventurers, then select the
year listed below and then
find the name listed in that
year.
Read the bio for that individual and locate
the information needed to complete the coordinates. The cache will
be easy to find once at the cache site, although there is a short
walk to get from the parking area.
There are trade items in the cache and a FTF
Prize for the lucky cacher that completes the task at hand and gets
there first.
Be sure to take the hint with you to
the cache site. You’ll need it.
The cache can be found at the following
coordinates:
N35 AB.CDE
W078 FG.HIJ
N35
AB.CDE
1900 – Explorers and
Adventurers
John Johnston:
He
was reburied in Old Town Cody, Wyoming, on June 8.
A= The
last number in the year.
1902 - Explorers and Adventurers
Hi Jolly
The last descendant of this herd died at the Los Angeles
zoo.
B=The second
number minus the third number of the year.
1912 – Explorers and
adventurers
Edward Smith
C = The
first number in the year he was promoted
Captain, and given command of the White Star steamship
"Republic."
1914 - Explorers and Adventurers
Thomas Jeffords
D = The
last number of the year he
witnessed the burial of Cochise.
1915 - Explorers and Adventurers
Corydon Cooley
E
= The last two numbers of the year he accepted appointment as
deputy U.S. marshal for huge Yavapai County subtracted from each
other.
W078
FG.HIJ
1919 - Explorers and Adventurers
John Hance
F = The
last number in the year he arrived and probably became the first
white man to settle there.
1923 - Explorers and Adventurers
Thomas Baldwin
G = The
last number in the day that his dirigible made it’s
first trial flight.
1924 - Explorers and Adventurers
Harry Yount
H =
Excluding the birth and death dates, this number is only found two
times in the biography.
1942 - Explorers and Adventurers
William Powell
I = The
last number of the year Charles Lindberg landed in Paris.
1949 – Explorers and
Adventurers
Robert Ripley
J = The
last number of the two decades that he was at the peak of his
career and his phrase became a common icon of America.