| Six Hundred FortySecond in the Famous People (FP) Series - Tennessee Ernie Ford |
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Ernest Jennings Ford (February 13, 1919 – October 17, 1991) served in World War II as the bombardier on a B-29 Superfortress flying missions over Japan. Ford's experiences as a navigator and bombardier in World War II led to his involvement with the Confederate Air Force (now the Commemorative Air Force), a war plane preservation group in Texas. He was a featured announcer and celebrity guest at the annual CAF Airshow in Harlingen, Texas, from 1976 to 1988.
Ford scored an unexpected hit on the pop charts in 1955 with his rendition of Merle Travis' "Sixteen Tons", a sparsely arranged coal-miner's lament that Travis wrote in 1946, based on his own family's experience in the mines of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Its fatalistic tone contrasted vividly with the sugary pop ballads and the rock and roll just starting to dominate the charts at the time:
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go;
I owe my soul to the company store...
In 1955 he also recorded "Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier".
Tennessee Colony is an unincorporated community in western Anderson County, Texas, United States. Four major Texas Department of Criminal Justice correctional facilities, the George Beto Unit, the Coffield Unit, the Mark W. Michael Unit, and the Gurney Unit, are located near Tennessee Colony and use the community's name in their mailing addresses. Stop by and visit the Historical Marker in front of the church and the Community Center next door to determine the coordinates to the final which is a camoed diabetes test strip container.
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| North Coordinates |
Count the number of lines of text on the marker.
Don't count the title line or the date at the botton. |
| 23 |
N31 50.156 |
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| 24 |
N31 50.143 |
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| 25 |
N31 50.191 |
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| 26 |
N31 50.183 |
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| West Coordinates |
| Check out the bell in front of the Community Center (150' NE) and find a number on it. |
| 23 |
W095 50.310 |
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| 24 |
W095 50.345 |
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| 25 |
W095 50.365 |
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| 26 |
W095 50.413 |
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| Final |
| Are you the King of the Wild Frontier or dragging around 16 tons? |
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FP cemetery caches are always placed with regards to the location, so please be mindful of your presence here, watch where you step and be respectful of the residents interred here. Please carefully re-hide the container better to maintain the integrity of the cache.
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GPSr Accuracy 11.0' @ Final |
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Avoid the use of acronym only logs and cut 'n paste logs. You must sign the log to claim the find. No exceptions, no excuses.