Honoring Alton Traditional Cache
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Regular size cache, room for swag and TBs. Dawn to dusk caching only. No need to disturb residents. Top of container has access door. *******Please!!! Be sure to snap shut tight to help keep log dry. *******Please Congrats to steveandmissy for FTF!
From Debbie Kinyon and Pat Greene's book, History of Leroy, second edition, on page 48: 1.18 acres of land for this cemetery was donated by the Williams' family who lived at 6449 Vrooman Rd. in 1831. Later, Williams' son took up residence next to this cemetery and became its sexton. His job was to dig graves. In winter months when the ground was frozen, bodies were kept in the stone vault located near Vrooman Rd. The sexton checked on the bodies daily and when their condition started to deteriorate, the families were notified and arrangements made. The front of the property is graced in by large, hand-cut sandstone blocks stacked as a retaining wall. It was, at one time, enclosed by a decorative iron fence. Solomon Davis William [sic] was buried here in 1886 at the age of 69. His son, Dexter William [sic], was the first soldier of Leroy Twp. to die in the civil War. Solomon chose a location near a stately pine tree for his son's grave site. Years later, when the Leroy trustees were cutting down all the evergreens at the cemetery, Dexter's son Alton stood guard over the tree and refused to let anyone cut it down. The pine no longer stands today
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