WSQ German Ev Reformed Church Cemetery 1865 Multi-Cache
Cache_boppin_BunnyFuFu: Moving out of this area & want to give others opportunity to place a cache here.
WSQ German Ev Reformed Church Cemetery 1865
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Welcome to New Berlin's second cemetery
with roots to
Germany
German Evangelical Reformed
Church Cemetery - Established
in 1865
A simple 2 stage Multi, but PLEASE read through cache page before
venturing to this cache....Important
info!
Congrats to beccaday on the FTF
Coords take you to the small parking
area on the hill. Please Read the Safety Note Below. Cache is NOT
located IN the cemetery, BUT reachable from within, so enjoy
your walk around this quaint old cemetery and see if some of these
names seem a bit familiar (i.e. Road Names, mentioned in other
local other caches, etc.)
SAFETY NOTE: This road can get VERY Busy
at times. Best if approached from the South so you can make a right
turn up the hill & into the parking area. I would NOT advise
parking on the hill in the winter, but safely across the street (On
the West Side of the road and PLEASE be careful
crossing!!!)
Proper notification for placement
(though not located IN the cemetery) was made... RESPECTFUL visits
welcome! REMEMBER: There will be NO standing or climbing on
Headstones.
After doing some research with my other WSQ cache
GC2ED8K at Pioneer Cemetery, just up the road, I found that
there was suppose to be another cemetery located close by, but I
never could have seem to find it....or maybe I didn't try hard
enough. LOL Driving North on Racine Ave (aka County "Y"), I turned
my head just in time to see a very familiar brown sign, up a small
hill, that I never noticed before. So THIS is the location of the
second historical cemetery mentioned at the Pioneer
Cemetery.
To find the location of the final you will use information
from the sign at the front gate, then enter to read a little
history from within. The coords should take you within 10 ft of the
cache (Too dense of foliage to get spot on). the clue is VERY
helpfull!! You will need to solve for the following:
N42 58.ABC
W88 10.DEF
From the sign:
~ Figure out how old Carl Wilde & Angelica Kratz were when they
passed.
A = The difference between the two ages PLUS 2
~ Carl & Angelica were both born in the same century
B = The second digit in the 4 digit birth years or
1Bxx
C = last digit of the age Angelica was when she passed
Now... enter thru the gate (please close gate when you leave), walk
forward between a row of small stones to your left & large
monuments to your right. Walk to the 3rd large monument on your
right, then LOOK just past it, almost behind. You will see a stone
for the Stern Family Use the info on the front of this stone
(but take a moment to note the back...a memorial to Angelica
also)
~ The Sterns were Pioneers of 184"?"
D = "?"
~ Note the Months that Henry and Henreetta passed. Change the
months to a # (i.e. Jan=1, Feb=2, etc)
E = Henry's month of death minus Henreetta's month of
death
F = # of letters in the family name
WENT BACK 3 TIMES...COORDS WERE DIFFICULT TO GET IN HERE. PLEASE
LET ME KNOW IF YOU GET MORE ACCURATE ONES AND WILL REWORK THE
MATH!!
FTF CONGRATS TO BECCADAY...GREAT JOB!!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
"Orurvz" zr & gb zl yrsg. Abg va gur przrgrel, ohg ernpunoyr sebz.
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