Lefors Mystery Cache
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The cache is not at the listed coordinates. They are near the grave of Perry Lefors, a well known pioneer of this area, his wife Emma and their daughters.
You will have to solve a simple field puzzle to get the final coordinates which are in this well kept cemetery.
It is in the south fence line of this cemetery, 669' bearing 187* from here. Watch out for snakes. 
Perry applied for a post office for the stage stop on the North Fork of the Red River, and it was granted October 12, 1892. However, the Postal Department in Washington decided the capital letter "F" must be changed to a small letter, and so the post office and later town became Lefors, Texas. The land had been donated by Perry. By 1902 there seemed to be enough people in the area, and so with Perry's influence and promotion, over 150 voters out of 175 petitioned for an election to organize Gray County and separate it from the jurisdiction of Wheeler County. The election was held, and on May 27, 1902, Gray County was formed and Lefors was named as county seat. Times were good, and people were happy and prosperous when suddenly the LeFors family was stricken with the dreaded typhoid fever that was sweeping through the country. Perry died from the fever on September 6, 1909 and within six weeks four of the girls also died by October 26, 1909.
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