The Govornor Multi-Cache

This cache has been archived.

Chuck Walla: Hello Sean-Athair,

I see that you have not checked on your geocache and addressed the issue with it. Nor, alternatively, have you posted a note to your geocache page to tell me and others of your intention to address the issue with it.

No response tells me that you are not planning on replacing or repairing this geocache. Therefore, I am archiving it.

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Hidden : 9/28/2006
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This is the grave site of Thomas S. Drew 3rd. Govornor of Arkansas. It is a micro cache. Loge only, please bing your own writing tool. This is a multi stage cache. The first set of coordinates will put you in front of the grave site.

Thomas S. Drew was born in August 1802 in Wilson County, Tennessee, the son of a gunsmith. His family later moved to Louisiana. In 1817 Drew moved to Clark County in the Arkansas Territory, where he worked as a peddler and as a schoolteacher Thomas S. Drew, a cousin of George Mansker, came to Bettis Bluff in 1817, supporting himself as a traveling peddler and school teacher. In 1827 Drew married Cinderella Bettis, the daughter of a prosperous Missouri landowner Ransom Bettis. As a wedding present the couple received 800 acres in northeast Arkansas near the present-day town of Baggers. By 1832 Drew had established himself as a prominent planter and a power in local politics. That same year he was elected judge of the Lawrence County Court. In 1835 Drew's plantation became part of the newly created Randolph County. He was chosen as the county's delegate to the statehood constitutional convention, where he helped resolve the conflict over how slaves were to be factored in determining representation. From 1836 to 1844, Drew became an influential figure within the Democratic Party, playing the role of a mediator between the various factions in the Governor’s race in 1843. Thomas S. Drew, the only choice acceptable to all factions won by a narrow plurality, receiving only 47% of the vote. Drew had the unenviable honor of inheriting a state on the verge of bankruptcy. He urged the legislature to increase both the rate and breadth of taxes. This new revenue allowed the state to meet its expenses, but nothing was left over to help reduce the debt. In 1848 Drew accepted nomination for a second term on the condition that the State Legislature raise the governor's salary. When it failed to do so, he resigned one year into his term on January 10, 1849. His reason was that “it didn’t pay enough to raise a family on” During the 1850s, Drew sought to repair his personal insolvency. He served briefly as Superintendent of Indian Affairs at Fort Smith, before returning to law. Drew suffered financial reverses during and immediately after the Civil War, but resumed the practice of law in the late 1860s in Pocahontas. Following his wife’s death in 1872. Drew moved to Texas where he died January (n.d.) 1879. More information can be found on the following web sites. http://www.oldstatehouse.com/exhibits/virtual/governors/antebellum_arkansas/drew.asp http://www.soskids.arkansas.gov/govs-state-1836.html

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