GC6KMNZ Family Tree #9: Saint John's Cemetery (Multi-cache) in Kansas, United States created by DrPowercat

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A cache by DrPowercat Message this owner

Hidden : 6/12/2016

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Genealogy is my other hobby and it has taken me to almost as many cemeteries as geocaching. A combination of the two seems like a natural fit. This cache will be part of a CONNECTED series of caches in cemeteries where I have a family connection. As always with cemetery caches, please be respectful, no night time caching allowed, and no searching for the cache if there is a service in progress.

Saint Johns Cemetery is an old Catholic cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas. It is not used as much today, but there are over 2,000 people buried here. My ggg-grandfather and his second wife are two of those people. He was born in the German province of Baden, in southwest Germany and was trained to be a tailor as a young man. Family rumors are that he fell in love with one of the ladies-in-waiting at the neighborhood castle. A tailor was beneath her status as a low ranking noblewoman and they were forbidden from being married, so they chose to sail for America. How much of that part of the story is true, has been lost to history.
They settled in the Rochester, New York area in 1849, but sadly she passed away shortly after my gg-grandfather was born in 1851. That young boy is the subject of stage one of the first cache in this series, Family Tree #1: Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery.
My ggg-grandfather eventually re-married another German immigrant and they had eight more children. They moved to "Bleeding Kansas" and settled in Wyandotte county in 1856, where he became a successful farmer in the Quindaro area. They lived in a large red brick house that is still standing today at the corner of 7th and Nebraska, here in Kansas City, Kansas.

STAGE ONE
The posted coordinates will take you the final resting place of my ggg-grandfather and his second wife. They have a tall upright stone with names on the east and north sides of the stone. The last name contains five letters to help with identification of the correct stone. Use the information on the east side of the stone to answer the following questions and determine the location of the cache. It is located at: N 39 06.ABC 094 40.DEF A: the third digit of the year HE died B: the fourth digit if the year HE died C: the second digit of the day SHE was born The checksum for ABC is 18 D: the third digit of the year SHE died E: the fourth digit of the year SHE died F: the first digit of his age in years when HE died The checksum for DEF is 14

Punch those coordinates in your GPSr and the cache is a short walk away.

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