This cache was originally placed for the sixth annual Greater Omaha Grave Hop, an event that takes place in the Omaha area. The caches are located in and around cemeteries. Please be respectful and search for the caches between dawn and dusk.
Kobs Pioneer Cemetery
Use your phone or computer to look up the Kobs Pioneer Cemetery Nebraska Historial Marker to gain information on solving this puzzle. You can also go into the museum at Glacier Creek Preserve to get info there too. Entering the Glacier Creek Preserve is not necessary to solve this puzzle unless you are not able to access the information on the Nebraska Historial Marker through computer or mobile device. Also, added is the to this cache page is a copy of the marker. You are welcome to come and visit this Glacier Creek Preserve area another time. It is free to enter.
Glacier Creek Preserve is a restored Tallgrass Prairie nature preserve used for research, teaching, and community engagement. It was donated to the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1959. This area was homesteaded by Hans and Christiana Nielsen from Denmark who most likely used it for cropland. More acres were added after the donation in 1959 to give the current location 525 acres of preserve.
The Kobs Family have their family cemetery on this now Preserve location. The cemetery is about a half mile walk down a grass path to the area. This cache does not require you to take that trip. You are welcome to come back at a later date and walk in the prairie grasses and explore the cemetery then. Admission here is free to explore. The puzzle final is not at the orginial posted coordinates.
Use the Nebraska Historical Marker to answer the questions to arrive at the final location. Your moblie device, computer or other means is considered the special tool on this cache.
N 41 20.ABC W 096 0D.EFG
A.= If A=1 B=2 C=3 the first letter in the man's first name whose family cemetery this is
B.= This man died in 189____.
C.= ___5 Kobs relatives were buried here
D.= The two sons listed on the Nebraska sign died in 187____.
E.= The Nebraska Historical Marker was placed in 20___5.
F.= The number letters of Albert's wife minus 3
G.= From the time these two people emigrated to the United States and then purchased this farm is _____years then add 2.