The cache is hidden near two cypress trees that were planted back in 1877 near the grave of Garnet Hamilton Warburton (born 3 February 1854 - died 13 January 1877). The trees are on the northern side of the Dutch Reformed church.
Garnet Hamilton Warburton died there at the age of 23 years after falling off his horse on 3 February 1887 and buried near by where the two trees are standing.
He worked as a clerk in the shop of Peel and Laing, one of the first residence of Trichardt. It is possible that his mothers maiden name was Peel and he was family of the store owner, but not confirmed.
At the time of his death there was no English pastor or elder in the area. Peel and Laing then asked the elder of the Dutch Reformed church, Dirkie (DPJ) van Schalkwyk, to buried him.
Later on an unknown woman was also buried at the same site. The graves were removed in the 1970's to the Trichardt cemetery at the end of Gray Street and General Louis Botha Street.
In 1877 there was no church in the area either. The first Dutch Reformed congregation was establish on 22 November 1879 and named Trichardsfontein, after the farm of Carolus Johannes Trichardt (1811 - 1901), who lived in the area since 1868 / 1870 until 1896. Carolus Trichardt was the son of the Voortrekker, Louis Trichardt.
The first church was build in 1884 while the town, Trichardt, was only proclaimed on 28 April 1906. The old church building (not the original one) can be seen from the cache site.
During the 2nd Anglo Boer war, in June 1901, the British pitched camp near the church. They were accompanied by a number of Joiners who were also members of the church. At that time the Joiners or British soldiers blew up the church and burnt the roof down to only one wall standing and looted the pews.
The sexton of the church, L.A.J.J. Van Nieuwenhuizen, was taken prisoner of war and sent to Bermuda
The church bell was also removed by the British soldiers and later found in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (then South Rhodesia) in 1903. It is believed that the bell was removed by the Rhodesian Mounted Rifles. In 1904 the church bell was back in Trichardt and today can be viewed near the old church building. The church was rebuild after the war and inaugurated on 28 July 1906 a few months after the town was proclaimed..
Information obtained from Dutch Reformed archives, Trichardt's 100 year celebrations (1906 - 2006) publication and Guide to the Anglo Boer War in the Eastern Transvaal by Gert and Erika van der Westhuizen.