"The Grave That Wasn't" Traditional Geocache
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"The Grave That Wasn't"
Have you ever seen a Tombstone standing lonely by the highway-
And wondered who was buried there on some long gone-by-day-
Then passing by another time you found the tombstone gone-
And wondered to yourself just what the heck was goin' on-
Back in the nineteen fifties, a road construction crew-
Was working on an interchange to make it wide and new-
Out in northwest Oklahoma where U.S. 283-
Heads northward toward Kansas, and it was a sight to see-
The huge machines were moving and were tearing up the ground-
"Til they came across an object that shut the whole job down-
They had plowed up an old headstone right where they were set to pave-
And they figured where a headstone was, there had to be a grave-
So they placed a brand new headstone where they thought the grave to be-
Then they fenced it in and left it there for all the world to see-
As passer-by would stop to view this solitary stone-
They wonder why someone should be buried there alone-
Until one day a man came by to tell a story strange-
About that lonely headstone standing by the interchange-
He said he'd read the epitaph which was engraved there on-
And knew of those same words engraved upon another stone-
So there at last the truth came out, of how it came to be-
I'll pass the information on as it was told to me-
It seems that in a cemetery just across the way-
A brand new headstone was installed there at a grave one day-
And as the crew was hauling the old headstone back to town-
They had a little problem with their trailer breaking down-
So there they dumped that headstone and that's how it came to be-
A layin' in the ditch by U.S. 283-
The highway men took down the fence and carted off the stone-
And all that's left are the memories of it that linger on-
So now you've heard the story just as it was told to me-
About the "Grave That Wasn't," by U.S. 283
----author unknown----
I remember my Dad and Granddad talking and laughing about this story. The "Grave That Wasn't" is located just north across highway from this cache. You can still see some of the iron, that I was told, was part of the fence around this grave. The cemetery, where this headstone came from, is located 1 1/2 miles west and 1/2 mile north.
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crnahg ohggre wne