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Miller Burial Ground Traditional Cache

Hidden : 11/23/2019
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


 

Please approach from posted Parking coordinates only, not from closer roadway.

Wilmore Lutheran Cemetery, also known as Miller Burial Ground, was owned by the Millers' and donated to the Lutheran Church. Their stone is the obelisk in the rear of the cemetery.  Burials range from the early 1800's to the early 1900's, with the earliest listed in an on-line index being 1817, located in the first row.

In 1918, during a flu epidemic, horses were used to dig up a trench in the middle of the cemetery (probably the wooded area) to bury the dead, as no one was well enough to dig graves.  No burials or tombstones from this period are listed.

A fenced-in area in the back of the cemeteries has Griffiths buried there, but we found no information on them.

At GZ for this cache you will see a stone for John Sechler. In a search for him on Ancestry.com, we found that he committed suicide by cutting his own throat with an old penknife. An article from the local newspaper that tells the story about his death is in the cache.

Please be respectful of the cemetery site.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

fznyy ybx-a-ybx va ebggvat jlr bs gerr, svir+/- srrg bss tebhaq

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)