MoonShiner #3 G.W. Rhoden Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 2/19/2013
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

You are searching for a well hidden ammo can along with my shine.

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G.W. Rhoden has gone from a mule-and-wagon-days-child moonshiner, to a fast-car-catch-'em-and-arrest-'em sheriff's deputy -- two power-charged careers that spanned more than three decades. He has known and lived on both sides of the law.

I started off bootlegging when I was about seven or eight years old," he said. "We had a still about two miles from our house. Daddy would take me with him in the mule and wagon and when we'd get there he'd put me up in a tree with a fork in it and that would be where I'd stay to watch for the revenuers while he worked to make the shine.

I remember one time daddy had me on the road with him and we thought the law was out there somewhere and daddy said, 'if they come by and ask you if you know where a moonshine still is, say, 'Yeah, I know where one is,' then say, 'Mr. Knabb's got a big one up there at Woodstock, a real big one." "Daddy knew Mr. Knabb had a turpentine still there and thought that would throw the revenuers off.

After the Depression and World War II was beginning to start, sugar was hard to get to make the shine, and that's where Junior Crockett came in. He started selling us syrup and that's how he got rich. He helped everyone because he would bring us the syrup and if we didn't have the money he would swap syrup for the shine and we could make more and sell more with him helping us. I was too young to go off in the service, but a lot of the moonshiners got called off to war and when they got home they started bootlegging again.

Baker County citizens banded together and convinced a young man, E. Ed Yarbrough from Taylor, to run for sheriff and clean up the bootlegging. "I campaigned for him because I wanted to see things change. I wanted the county to be a place you could raise your family because it had become a bad place. Just about everyone in the county was involved in one way or another.

When Ed got elected he asked me to go to work for him. I did, and, buddy, we went to work, and we really cleaned it up. There was a lot of my friends who were bootlegging, people I loved and respected. I went to a lot of 'em and told 'em, 'You better quit 'cause we are going to stop this bootlegging.' Ed went to them, too. He even sent me to see 'em and tell 'em if they didn't do like they ought to we were going to catch 'em, and we did.

People in the county were tired of it and how it had gotten out of hand. They helped us do it by being an informer. There was no more loyalty like the old days.

G.W Rhoden died after a short illness on Sunday, March 26, 1995, from cancer.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Guerr ncneg TN/ fglyr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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