My sister Pam (caching name "pmwalk") has been into genealogy for some time and discovered that we have ancestors buried in Westmoreland. Using findagrave.com, we located graves for Timothy and Ruth Warner Skinner, in Lord Cemetery, located in a rural part of Westmoreland.
"The Skinner family consisted of Timothy Skinner (1781-1843), Ruth Warner Skinner, his wife (1770-1849), and their nine children - Warren, Cynthia, Alanson, Avery, Hiram, Dolphus, Barton, John, and Albert. Growing up in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, the Skinner children, like so many other young men and women in the early nineteenth century, moved west from their parental home to settle across upstate New York and Ohio. At least three of them (Warren, Dolphus, and Barton) became ministers, and one (Albert) became a doctor. Orthers became teachers, farmers, or businessman."
"Cynthia Skinner, the second oldest of the siblings, migrated to Brownville, Jefferson Co., New York in 1824. After her marriage to Hiram Walker in February 1829, she settled with him on his farm in Union Square New York."
Hiram Walker is a direct descendant of my late father, Eugene Walker. From her marriage to Hiram, Cynthia, my namesake, is my great-great grandmother.
At the beginning of this past Memorial Day weekend, I did an appropriate activity of driving to Westmoreland, finding the cemetery, and paying my respects to my ancestors Timothy and Ruth. Timothy was a patriot in the American Revolution, mustered into service in 1777 for four months, then serving again in 1779 for ninety days. He filed for his military pension at the age of 71, and at that time it was about $70 annually. When I visited the gravesite, volunteers for Westmoreland cemeteries had put a flag next to his headstone. Looking around this cemetery dating from 1799, you will note a number of older but well maintained headstones.
To access the cemetery, I came in from the north off of Glebe Rd., following Lord Cemetery Rd. around a sharp left turn, then continuing as it becomes a narrow dirt roadway. It is a little high centered, but I had no problem navigating it with my Subaru. I don't think it's plowed in winter, as it is marked as part of the local snowmobile trails. I'm not sure if roads coming from further south are passable.
The cache is log only; many of you will recognize this type of hide. You don't need to move anything to access the container. This is a park & grab for most of the year, but I didn't give it the attribute just in case some might want to go for a winter walk. I'd avoid the road during mud season. The cache is just outside the cemetery; you don't need to enter it. But you are welcome to enter the gate and walk around. The gate is kept closed by a large rock which is easy to swivel around, but please put the gate back as found.