Pioneer Cemetery

One of the geocaches we found in Lebanon, Oregon was located in a pioneer cemetery.  While Dave searched for the geocache, I spent some time looking at the gravestones.  Many of them were too weathered to be able to read the details.  A few had more modern headstones.  One of the older graves was for someone born in the late 1700s.  On his tombstone it said “War of 1812”.

This one was interesting because it showed that the person was born in 1794 and died in 1899.  If that’s correct, Margy Ann lived to be 105 years old!

This one resembled a wishing well and displayed the words “They are Not Dead” written on a Bible. 

Many of the stones displayed the age of the person in years, months and days.  In this case, Elizabeth lived to be 40 years, 8 months, and 4 days.

Another unusual design

Dave finally found the geocache in a tree stump.

This is an example of how geocaching led us to a part of town we wouldn’t have otherwise explored.  I could have stayed here all day looking at the gravestones and imagining the lives of the pioneers buried in this cemetery.