CACHE: This is a 1 stage puzzle/multi-cache in a cemetery. No night caching. Enter the east entrance and drive to the waypoint to the Hough Family plot, can't miss it. Look for the spire for pioneer Ebenezer Hough (rhymes with "stuff") and his wife Lucy. You'll use this marker for the information you need to solve the puzzle. If you are not a puzzle solver, deductive reasoning may produce the cache for you, with a little bit of searching.
PUZZLE:
N42 54.ABC W83 03.DEF
A = 1st # of the day Ebenezer died
B = last # in the year Lucy died - Look carefully, the online database is in error.
C = how many months is listed for Ebenezer's age?
D = how many days is listed for Ebenezer's age?
E = the amount of letters in their last name
F = on the marker, the word years is abbreviated to how many letters?
HISTORY: The cemetery association was established around 1860, although there are a few known burials prior. The land was part of Ebenezer Hough's farm. The association laid out the land to contain a potter's field and had a budget for landscaping, specifically some of the majestic trees you see growing today. The entire cemetery once was fenced in white. The namesake of the cemetery, Ebenezer Hough, came here with other members of his family including a brother, and a brother-in-law by the name of Ingalls, in the years 1833-34. Between them they owned more than 700 acres in a township then known as Bristol, after another early settler. The original farmhouse owned by Walter K. Hough is across from the cemetery and marked with a historic marker. The red farmhouse to the west also is part of the Hough family homestead. It's been in the family since being purchased from the State of Michigan, one of the oldest and longest continuously family owned farms in Lapeer County. Walter's great-granddaughter is Marguerite de Angeli, the well known children's author from Lapeer. Ebenezer Hough married Lucy (Brown) Kelley in Connecticut. They raised their family on Shoemaker Road, their original home is long gone, the house there today was built by a Mr. Payne. It's said the apple trees on the property are from the first trees planted on the Hough farms. Like the Bristols, the Hough family were well known farmers and fruit growers. Michigan often is #2 in the nation for their apple harvests.