Family Tree #11: Rochester Cemetery Multi-Cache
Hidden : 11/16/2016
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

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.

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 caches is now spread over six counties in northeast Kansas. I thought number 10 would be the final entry in the series, but I decided to add one more. All of the caches take you the final resting place of a direct line ancestor in my family tree. There are currently ten multis and one reverse wherigo in the series. All of the caches contain a clue that will provide information to help you find and unlock a final cache. The clue is typically wrote in multiple places on the log and/or on the container itself. Keep track of the clues so you can find the final.

Rochester Cemetery is a beautiful cemetery that serves as the final resting place of over 10,000 people. It is the oldest cemetery in Shawnee county and was founded in 1854. It is possible that there were burials before this date as people passed along the trails through "Bleeding Kansas". The cemetery lies on over 25 acres north of the Kansas River in Topeka and the grounds are covered with numerous trees that keep the area in the shade year-round.
One of the more illustrious inhabitants of the cemetery is the Albino Lady. There are numerous urban myths regarding encounters with her ghost in north Topeka.
The posted coordinates will bring you to the final resting place of my gg-grandparents. Their last name contains seven letters and their grandson, Roy, is buried immediately north of them. The markers are flush with the ground and may be difficult to find if snow or leaves cover the ground.
His father and his maternal grandfather both immigrated from Ireland at the dawn of the 19th century. They settled in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York (in fact, not far from Rochester, New York, which provides a little bit of irony, given their final resting place).
She was the descendant of families that had been in Massachusetts and upstate New York since the early days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which was started not long after the arrival of the Mayflower.
They came west with their children around 1880 and settled in Vienna township, south of Onaga, in Pottawatomie county. Eventually, they moved to Topeka and spent the last few decades of their lives here in north Topeka. Their third child was my great-grandfather and he is the subject of stage one of Family Tree #1: Holton Cemetery.

My gg-grandparents in the 1920s


This is a two stage cache. Answer the following questions to obtain the location of the cache.

STAGE ONE
N 39 06.ABC W 095 40.DEF
A: 3rd digit of the year SHE was born MINUS the 4th digit of the year HE was born.
B: 4th digit of the year HE died.
C: 3rd digit of the year HE died.
Checksum for ABC is 12.
D: 4th digit of the year SHE was born PLUS the 3rd digit of the year SHE died.
E: 3rd digit of the year SHE was born PLUS the 4th digit of the year SHE was born.
F: 3rd digit of the year HE was born.
Checksum for DEF is 18.

Go find the cache.
Sign the log.
Don't forget to make note of the clue for the final.

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