The Family Tree series:
Family Tree #1: Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery
Family Tree #2: Holton Cemetery
Family Tree #3: North Cedar Cemetery
Family Tree #4: Denison Cemetery
Family Tree #5: Muscotah Cemetery
Family Tree #6: St. Ann's Cemetery
Family Tree #7: Pioneer Cemetery
Family Tree #8: Jenkins' (AKA: Vienna) Cemetery
Family Tree #9: Saint John's Cemetery
Family Tree #10: St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery
Family Tree #11: Rochester Cemetery
This series of ten caches is now spread over six counties in northeast Kansas. There are currently ten multis and one reverse wherigo in the series. All of the caches contain a clue that will help you find and open the final cache in the series. The clue is wrote in multiple places on the log and/or on the container.
The series begins where I have multiple ancestors and other relatives buried and where, quite frankly, I will someday be (hopefully FAR, FAR, FAR in the future).
STAGE ONE
The posted coordinates will take you to the final resting place of my great-great grandparents. He was born in New York soon after his parents arrived in America from Germany. His mother died soon after childbirth. His father remarried and they moved to Kansas City when he was a young child.
She was also born in upstate New York to German immigrants and came to Kansas with her parents.
They were married in 1875 and they were the parents of thirteen children, all of whom lived to adulthood and had multiple children of their own. They have well over 1,000 descendants. The following photo was taken around 1901 and shows my great-great grandparents with their thirteen children. My great-grandmother is the young girl sitting directly in front of her father.
My great-great-grandparents and their 13 children ca. 1901
Their final resting place is marked with a tall monument with a cross on the top. On the east side of this marker, you will find the names of their thirteen children. Find the name of the 11th child in the list. She was my great-grandmother and you will find her buried very close to her parents.
The following two photos are of my great-grandmother as a young woman, on the day of her wedding. She was married in 1914 to a man who was almost 25 years older than her. She was the mother of six children. She passed away when I was high school and I still remember the beautiful roses she had growing outside her house.
My great-grandmother ca. 1913
My great-grandparent's wedding_Feb. 1914
You will need to use the years listed on her tombstone to answer the following questions and move on to the next stage, which is located at
N 39 28.ABC W 095 46.DEF.
A: first digit of her year of death PLUS the last digit of her year of death
B: third digit of her year of death
C: second digit of her year of her year of birth MINUS the third digit of her year of death
Checksum for ABC is 10
D: last digit of her year of birth MINUS the last digit of her year of death
E: (third digit of her year of death MINUS the fourth digit of her year of death) MINUS (the 1st digit of her year of death)
F: (the sum of the four digits of her year of death) MINUS (the sum of the four digits of her year of birth)
Checksum for DEF is 12
STAGE TWO
You should now be at the final resting place of my grandparents. They both passed away just a few months shy of reaching the age of 90. I was the oldest child of their oldest child, so I was fortunate enough to have them in my life well into adulthood. He was a member of "the greatest generation". He quit school a few months before graduation and joined the army during WW II. He served in an engineering company. After the war, he came home and married my grandmother. He inherited 160 acres from his father and spent the next six decades turning that into a large farming operation. My grandmother's father was the son of 19th century German & Irish immigrants. Her mother was the descendant of English and Scotch-Irish families that were in this country before the American Revolution. She made the best pork chops, fried chicken and homemade candy. She was the definition of "Grandma".
My grandfather during WW II_1944
My grandparent's wedding portrait
Use the information found on the headstone to answer the following question and discover the location of the cache.
Look for the name of their first child on the front of the stone. She is buried very close to her parents and her husband's name was Kermit. You will find an ammo can behind her stone.