Forgotten Darling Jones Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

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Hidden : 7/31/2005
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Medium sized plastic container with logbook and trading items. No food, please.

First, we recommend that you do not attempt this one after sunset. Evidence scattered about the site suggests that questionable activities occur during the wee hours.

This is the final resting spot of a Revolutionary War soldier. It is a forgotten cemetery badly in need of restoration. The main headstone is marked

Darling Jones
Pvt. Carter's Co
Shelby's N.C. Regt.
Rev. War
October 9, 1848

Aproximately 10 other graves are marked only with fieldstones.

The D.A.R. has placed a marker to Darling Jones. Neighbors seem to think that members of a Bayless family are buried here, but no further information is available.

Abstracted from History of Washington County, Tenenssee 1988 by the Watagua Association of Genealogists with permission:

Darling Jones (1764-1848) was the son of Lewis Jones Elizabeth Arnold Jones of Wake Co., NC. He married. 1st, in North Carolina, Nancy J. Nelson (1766-1843), daughter of William Nelson. They had three children: Rebecca, William B. Jones, and Henry Jones. He married 2nd, Nancy Huff (1816-1902). They had six children: Darling Jones, Jr., Lewis Jones, William Henry Jones, Isaac Jones, Alfred Jones and James Jones.

Darling and Nancy Huff Jones lived in a cabin home located near he Clinchfield Railway and the Asbury Bridge. The cabin was moved to the Girl Scout Camp on Oakland Avenue in Johnson City where it is used as an office building.

Coordinates are for the Darling Jones headstone. Facing the stone turn to your left. You should now be looking almost due north (10°). 50-70 feet in front of you will be a once forked tree. Half the base is rotted. Your prize lies here covered in sticks. Please rehide well to prevent muggles and rain from spoiling the cache container.

We removed several bags of trash from this site when we placed the cache. There is more work to be done. Please bring a bag to CITO in honor of this sleeping soldier.

No need to approach from St. of Franklin. A narrow gravel drive off Clinchfield St. will allow you to get your vehicle to within 50 yrd of cache. Easy walk from there.

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