Placed with permission from the Seabeck Christian Conference Grounds.
When parking, do not block the gate. Cemetery entrance is a short walk up the road. Please stay on the paths, no need to bushwhack. TOWN WHERE TIME STOOD STILL Before the settlers came to this peaceful little harbor, the Indians called their home here Scabock The Seabeck Mill wasn't the first to begin gnawing into the virgin forests of the Puget Sound country. In 1847 Michael Simmons had harnessed the power of Tumwater Falls at the southern tip of the Sound to a crude log cabin sawmill, and Henry Yesler's steam mill had been bringing coastwise lumber ships to the town of Seattle on Elliott Bay for three years, but Marshall Blinn's Maine-built machinery was the finest and most modern and no town on Puget Sound was more prosperous than Seabeck. By 1877 Seabeck was a town of 400 population, boasting four saloons, two hotels, two stores, a church, a little red schoolhouse and a five-acre cemetery. An ornately carved wooden marker from that pioneer burial ground is preserved to tell its mute and concise tale of sudden death in boom town Seabeck, "Sacred to the memory of Hyram Bryant, age about 45 years, who was killed in a dispute on the 26th day of January, 1868." This little bit of trivia came out of a small paper bound booklet published in 1958 by Gordon Newell for the Seabeck Christian Conference Center.
Jacob Hauptly and several other men worked on the graveyard. Jacob built a wagon road to the burying ground and took care of the burials from 1877 to 1886. Among the earliest reported deaths were those of Walter J. Williams, master of the British bar Sea Nymph in November 1860, Solomon Hopkins, age 48, a native of Milford, Maine died from his injuries May 24, 1864. He was cut by a circular saw. He left a large family in the East.
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Your mission is to find 3 grave sites and collect information for the final cache.
WP 1 - 47° 38.045 / 122° 49.899 Malina Nelson was born in AB = _________ and married to Andrew Nelson.
03 Sweden
01 Unknown
02 Norway
WP 2 - 47° 38.056 W 122° 49.931 John Werner Matson lived a short life.
C = What is the 4th digit of the year of death?
D = How many years did he live?
WP 3 - N 47 38.0264 W 122 49.944 Nathaniel Sargent, a slave born in Kentucky, was raised by a white family in the North. He was a graduate of the University of Illinois. Sargent came to Kitsap County, Washington, in 1882. He worked as a logger, and later became a rancher with about 250 acres of land. Sargent was an artist who created oil paintings, and he was also a writer. In 1897, he was elected the first African American (EF=) _____________ for Seabeck, Washington
69 Graveyard Committee
29 Justice of Peace
49 Captain of a Boat
FINAL: 47° 38.ABC / 122° 49.DEF (I would love to hear how many did it take to find the log sheet in your logs)
Sum Check: North 27 West 38
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Side Note: As you head into or out to the final, you will have some family that did settle in this area between 1917 and 1920.. My great grandparents, Christian and Maria Rostad, and great uncle, Edwards Rostad, age 16, are buried in this cemetery. My great parents immigrated here from Norway in 1910 and my grandfather Alfred Rostad was born in 1912 in Seattle, Washington
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