The Legend of Parley P. Pratt Mystery Cache

This cache has been archived.

Chuck Walla: Hello ShooterDog,

I see that you have not responded to my reviewer log about your cache, by posting a note to your cache 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 cache. Therefore, I am archiving your cache.

Sincerely,

Chuck Walla
Community Volunteer Reviewer
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Hidden : 3/7/2010
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

A lesson in history about a event in Crawford County. The Cache is NOT AT THIS LOCATION. This not meant to be a statement for or against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but just a lesson in history.

The Legend of Parley P. Pratt
Parley P. Pratt was one of the first Apostles and missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who murdered north of Alma in 1857.
While returning from a horseback missionary trip to the southern United States in 1857, Pratt was being tracked by Hector McLean. McLean was the legal husband of one of Pratt’s plural wives, Eleanor McLean. Pratt had met Eleanor McLean in San Francisco, California where Pratt was presiding over a church mission. In San Francisco, Eleanor had joined the LDS Church and had also had her oldest sons baptized. Hector rejected Mormonism and opposed his wife’s membership in the church. This dispute over the church led to the collapse of their marriage. Fearing that Eleanor would abscond to Utah Territory with their children, Hector sent his sons and his daughter to New Orleans to live with their grandparents. Eleanor followed the children to New Orleans and eventually she took them and left for Utah. At the time Eleanor was employed in Pratt’s home as a schoolteacher and later in a celestial marriage sealing ceremony she became Pratt’s 12th wife even though she was not legally divorced from Hector.
Upon learning of his wife’s actions, Hector pressed criminal charges accusing Eleanor and Pratt of kidnapping his children. Pratt managed to evade him and the legal charges, but was finally arrested in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) in May 1857. Pratt was taken to Van Buren were he was jailed and stood trial. He and Eleanor were charged only with theft of the clothing because the law did not recognize the kidnapping of children of a parent as a crime. Pratt was acquitted of the charges because of a lack of evidence. After his release, Parley P. Pratt rode northeast with Hector McLean and another man known as Marcy Howell in pursuit. At an area approximately 3 miles north of present day Alma, McLean and Howell overtook Pratt striking him in the chest with a knife and knocking him from his horse. McLean then returned and fired a fatal round into Pratt’s neck. Pratt was buried the following day in a nearby cemetery.
A monument now stands near the location where he is buried. THE CACHE IS NOT AT THIS LOCATION but feel free to visit the monument as it is part of Crawford County’s history.
The listed coordinates will take you to a rock just outside the memorial, this marks the spot where Parley Pratt is believed to be buried.
The container is a camo wrapped RX bottle.
From the listed coordinates travel 919.40 feet at 187.68 * North.

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