Restin’ in the First Traditional Cache
Hidden : 7/14/2009
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Enjoy the quiet solitude while logging your find. Please be respectful of your surroundings and place the cache back where you found it.

Please bring your own writing implement!

Do NOT enter if gates are closed. With thanks from Rev.Mark Wolfe the minister of the First Presbyterian Church. The Cemetery is not easily accessible during the winter months.


First Presbyterian Cemetery:

Before 1894 the Presbyterians in Penetanguishene had no cemetery of their own. Internments took place at St. James on the Lines Penetanguishene, Lakeview Cemetery in Midland, St Andrew's cemetery Wyebridge, or at the Methodist cemetery on Copeland Hill in Tiny Township. This all changed with the death of Mrs. Emilia Dahms-Beck on June 2, 1893. Her husband Chas. M. Beck had her body interred in a lot opposite St. James on the Lines. He intended to buy this site for a cemetery and donate it to the Presbyterian Church. However, he discovered the site was part of the grant from the British Government to St. James Church for use as a cemetery. In 1894 Charles Beck donated property at the northeast corner of Burke and Church Streets to the First Presbyterian Church. An area was reserved for the Beck family on which they built a Mausoleum. Before it was completed Mrs. Isobella Smith, wife to Mr. James Smith, died and became the first to be buried in the new cemetery. Mr. Chas. Beck did have his wife's remains moved to the newly constructed family vault (1894).


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