The above coordinates are not where this cache is
located! In order to get the coordinates for this cache you
must first find
Kelly’s Brothers’ Bonus Cache GC1CMCT
The coordinates and hint are in the lid. When replacing this cache
please make sure it is in its hiding place really good and that it
is covered with vegetation. Leave it better than you found it.
Thanks!
The objective of this cache is simple. There are no trade items.
We do not want any trade items in the cache at all. If you find
trade items in there please pull them out and drop them in other
caches. Trackables will be ok here. The cache is rectangle
lock-n-lock. The cache contains a log book and a pen. Our objective
is to gather stories from you of people that have touched your
heart. The log book is intended to allow you to reflect and then
write about a person or persons that have touched you deeply.
Hopefully after some time we will be able to retrieve the log book
and have wonderful journals filled about people of pure and
selfless hearts. Feel free to mention these people in your log
online. If you want to just sign the log book and not enter any
story that is ok, too! Just no trade items please.
This cache is placed in remembrance of a man named Clinton Kelly
who was a remarkable pioneer of the 1800’s. He and his 2 brothers,
Albert and Thomas, moved from Kentucky to Oregon in 1847. They were
all Methodist circuit riders. We found a biography online for
Clinton Kelly which told us, “At different times he filled
preaching appointments at Portland, Milwaukie, Oregon City,
Fosters, Mount Tabor and other places. In 1849 he preached the
first sermon ever delivered in Portland, the meeting being held in
a cooper shop in the vicinity of what is now Front and Stark
streets, on which occasion the entire population, fifteen or twenty
people, were present.”
Clinton Kelly was said to be a generous man who grew food for
the market. As stated in his biography one of his customers said to
him, “Mr. Kelly, you sell too cheap!” He answered, “My motto is-
Live and let live.” He cared much about his community and it showed
to all. He was not a rich man by means of finances but he was very
rich in his heart, filled with love for people and his Creator.
You can read more of his biography by clicking on the link
below, however, we would like to leave you with this closing:
“As the years went by Clinton Kelly’s nature, always
sympathetic, softened to a motherly tenderness. The cry of a child,
the plaint of a hurt animal never went unheeded. No poor human waif
was ever turned from his door; to such he tried to restore
self-respect by giving him a chance to earn an honest living. In
this way he gave home and employment to many luckless stragglers,
saying to himself: ‘But for the grace of God I might be as they
are.’ Nor did he turn away any one who came and asked help for a
worthy object. He began his religious life by building a house of
worship; such was his love for the house of God that he delighted
to lend a hand in all such enterprises. The first church erected in
Portland owed much to his assistance and there he worshipped with
his family until the coming of the log schoolhouse on the very top
of Mount Tabor.”
Thank you for hunting our Kelly caches. This trio was a very
special one for us to put together for you. Here's the link for the
rest of the biography:
Clinton Kelly's Biography
A special congratulations to F Troopers for First To Find all 3
caches in the series!
