Enduring Love Traditional Cache

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*gln: ARCHIVING ABANDONED CACHE

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Since I haven't any maintenance here in a very long time, I am going to assume that your priorities have changed and you’ve gone in a different direction.

Let me know if I can be of assistance in the future.

Thanks a MILLION for all you have done, Glenn
"Seek quality, not quantity"
--Your friendly Missouri Geocache Review team is:
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Hidden : 8/31/2014
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This cache celebrates the second anniversary for webscouter. and happy_wife. It is the third cache in our historical church series. We especially like this church because of the love story of Harry and Bess Truman and pray that our marriage will provide the same inspiration to those around us.

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Webscouter. and Happy_Wife

The First Presbyterian Church of Independence can trace its roots back to 1826 with the founding of the Liberty Street Cumberland Presbyterian Church. It is a result of a merger in 1913 between the Liberty Street Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the First Presbyterian Church established in 1841. The current church was built in 1888 with the new addition to the west built in 1923. You can see the change in brick color where the new addition was built. The original cost of the building was $40,000 and was financed by four families. The initial debt was paid off in 1913. It is thought that the church is a result of commissioning ceremonies for some of the first wagon trains leaving Independence in the 1820's. Money's from these commissions paid for an earlier building built in 1849 where the current post office stands. The organ was built by George Kilgen & Son in 1900 and has no visible pipes. It was electrified in 1923 and restored in 1993.

First Presbyterian today
and in 1948

It was in this church that Harry S. Truman met his wife Bess at the tender young age of six. He started courting Bess in 1911 and his initial request for her hand in marriage was declined. He persisted and asked her again in November of 1913 at which time she agreed to marry him, but it wasn't until he returned from WWI that they were married on June 28th, 1919. They were married until his death in 1972. All his life Truman said that he fell in love with Bess right there in Sunday school and never changed his mind. Truman apparently never went on a date with or showed interest in any other woman.

Main sanctuary
"When we moved to Independence in 1890," Truman wrote in 1945, "my mother's first thought was to get us into a good Sunday school. The nearest church to our home, to which she was willing to take us, was the First Presbyterian.... We...learned all the good stories of the Old and New Testaments..." Another of the students in Truman's Sunday shool class was Bess Wallace. "I saw a beautiful curly haired girl there," Truman remembered. "I thought (and still think) she was the most beautiful girl I ever saw. She had tanned skin, blond hair, golden as sunshine, and the most beautiful blue eyes I've ever seen, or ever will see."
Harry and Bess Truman wedding picture

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Haqre gur Tneqra Natry

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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