Vaughn Hill Cemetery Traditional Cache

This cache has been placed at the Vaughn Hill Cemetery

Vaughn Hill Cemetery was established by the Wood River Baptist Church. In 1800 the church purchased about two acres of land from area resident Joseph Vaughn for $5.00 an acre and the Cemetery was created. There are two Revolutionary War soldiers and several Civil War Veterans buried in this Cemetery The oldest burial of record is that of Mary Pruitt who was buried there in 1806.

The seven people that were killed in July of 1814 at the Wood River Massacre are buried in the Vaughn Hill Cemetery. A cache (Local History – GCWF30) explaining the story of the indian massacre is present at the Memorial site of the attack just across the Highway from Gordon Moore Park. The morning after the massacre, the friends and relatives prepared to bury the dead; and that was no small undertaking. There was nothing like any sawed lumber in the whole country; and besides axes and hoes they had but few tools of any description. Their only means to convey the bodies to the burying ground was on rough sleds drawn by oxen. The graves were dug with coffin-shaped vaults at the bottom, which were lined with slabs split from trees near by as nearly like plank as possible; and after the bodies were placed in the vaults they were covered over with the same kind of split slabs. The seven were buried in three graves; Mrs. Rachel Reagan and her two children in one grave; Captain Abel Moore's two children in another, and William Moore's two children in the third. Unfortunately their grave markers cannot be found, it might be one of the many hard to read or just gone with time.

The City of Wood River declared Vaughn Hill Cemetery an historic site in 2004.

Please do not search for this cache at night it is only available from Dawn to Dusk

You are searching for a small painted magnetic Bison Tube

Bring a writing instrument to sign the log – this is a small log sheet so sign with date and name only.

Poisonous Plants, Bugs, Insects, Critters or Snakes could be present. Search accordingly.