The cache itself is hidden along the perimeter of the cemetery and
can be reached from inside or outside. If you feel you must search
beyond the fence, please recalculate your answers .. it is no where
near the railroad tracks.
THIS IS A PUZZLE GEOCACHE
The coordinates given will bring you to the Unknown Boy's Grave
so please be respectful. This portion of the cemetery is pretty
well established but his marker is within the radius of the tall
tree and stood above the snow on the day this was hidden.
Please note the Month and Year on his
marker.
To determine the NORTH Coordinate: N42 59.710 MINUS the
month
on the grave marker. (Calculate the month in numeric value such
as - January = 01, December = 12, etc) so example 59.710 minus
December would be 59.710 minus 12 would be 59.698 (not actual)
To determine the WEST Coordinate: W88 14.240 MINUS the
year
on the grave marker. Please add the numbers together in the year
such as 1+8+8+9 = 26 so 14.240 minus 26 would be 14.214 (not the
actual).
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Below is the background story from the book "Weird Wisconsin:
Your Travel Guide to Wisconsin's Local Legends and Best Kept
Secrets" by Linda S. Godfrey, page 248.
"Waukesha, located just west of the bustling city of
Milwaukee, was a quiet little town in the 1920's. It was quite a
shock to its citzens then, when on , a very well-dressed little boy
was fished out of an old, quarry, drowned. He was about five years
old. Adding to the horror was the fact that he'd been hit on the
head with a blunt instrument.
The police were mystified so the local citizens tried to
help. Someone put up a $1,000 reward for information regarding the
boy's identity. A Waukesha funeral home displayed his body for
viewing a few days in the hopes someone would claim the body, but
no one showed up. Then a Milwaukee funeral home laid him out for
viewing, still no one came forward with information about him.
Because of his expensive clothing and shoes, he was dubbed "Little
Lord Frauntleroy". Police finally concluded he had been kidnapped
from a well-to-do family in another town, killed when he became too
difficult to deal with, and dumped in Waukesha where no one would
recognize him.
A sympathetic woman named Minnie Contrad didn't want to see
the little boy go into a pauper's grave so she passed the hat and
soon collected enough to buy a modest headstone for him. He is
buried here in the Waukesha Prairie Home Cemetery on DATE ON
MARKER. Minnie watched over his grave as if he were a member of her
own family, bringing flowers and keeping the burial plot tidy.
Eventually, in 1941, she was buried in the same cemetary, not too
far from the mystery boy.
According to those who lived at the time near the cemetary, a
heavily veield woman - someone other than Minnie - would sometimes
be seen placing a bouquet on the little grave. She had to be,
speculated, someone who know Little Lord Fauntleroy's true
identity. Otherwise, why the secrecy? Unfortunately, if she had
indeed known the boy, the veiled woman has by now taken the secret
to her own grave, and his true story will most likely forever
remain a mystern at the Prairie Home Cemetary."
Minnie Conrad's grave is located approximately 500 feet from his
grave .. we found it before it snowed. Depending upon how you enter
the cemetery, you can read the large family marker "CONRAD" right
along the main road.
This cache was placed for the 2009 Waukesha Winter JanBoree
Event to be held on Saturday, January 24.