They didn't use a name wizard

PLEASE MAKE SURE THE FINAL IS SECURELY CLOSED BEFORE LEAVING. 

The coordinates above ARE NOT the actual cache location but is in the same park as the cache.

Did you ever wonder where the names of things around us come from?  Mathilda-Welmering Park got its name from two streets near the park.  Mathilda is the street you access the parking area from and Welmering is a cul-du-sac street just to the south of the park.  Ok, so where did those streets get their names?  They didn't use a name wizard!  The following information is from the St Louis County Parks website.

MATHILDA - WELMERING PARK

PARK HISTORY

The Mathilda-Welmering Parksite was purchased in 1960 and opened in 1961 with funds from the 1959 Bond Issue. The name of the park comes from the two adjacent streets. Mathilda Avenue was named for the daughter of Fred L. Kerth, who owned and subdivided the original farm here. Mathilda Kerth married Walter R. Anderson and died in 1958. James B. and Alta Z. Welmering owned the land south of the park and laid out Welmering Street between 1938 and 1940.

The playground was rebuilt in 2002.

MATHILDA KERTH ANDERSON

Mathilda-Welmering Park is unusual as it is not named for individuals, but for the two adjacent streets. The streets however, do derive their names from people. Mathilda Kerth was the daughter of Fred L. Kerth and Kate Wagner. Fred Kerth farmed a tract of 120 acres stretching between Gravois and Heege Roads. Mathilda married Walter R. Anderson in 1912, and they lived at 201 North Central Avenue. Walter died in 1937, and Mathilda died in 1958. Their daughter Myrtle Mae married Oscar F. Ruwwe, Jr., an engineer for Union Electric.

JAMES B. AND ALTA Z. WELMERING

The Welmering in Mathilda-Welmering Park does not come directly from a person, but from Welmering Street, which is adjacent to the park. Welmering Street is named after James B. and Alta Z. Welmering, who owned the land where this street is located. The Welmerings purchased two long strips of land, totaling about 5.4 acres, in Fred L. Kerth’s subdivision, located south of what is now the park. James B. Welmering was a painter associated with a family firm. They moved from 4184A Neosho to a house on the site of the present Welmering Avenue, and lived there until about 1931. About 1938, they sold off a series of lots, and a dozen houses were completed by 1940. No formal subdivision was platted, but Welmering Avenue was listed in the county directory by 1941.

In order to find this cache you will need to obtain some information before heading to the park.  There are two ways that I found it, online(if you know where to look) or visit two local cemeteries.  You are looking for the ages of Mathilda Anderson and James Welmering when they passed on. [Mr Welmering's grave marker has years only, he was born on October 3rd and died on January 19th]  The coordinates for their grave sites are listed in the additional waypoints. Do not come to the park without this information and think you will be able to figure it out, you actually could but it would be a long monotonous process.  Once you have the info this cache becomes a multi-cache, you have solved the puzzle portion.

Mathilda Anderson age at death = AA

James Welmering age at death = BB

Please be cautious of muggles at certain stages of this cache

This cache is designed to give you a full tour of this small park

At the park go to WP 1 which is the kiosk near the parking lot.  You will find the coordinates to WP 2 somewhere on the kiosk.

At WP 2 take note of the number of letters on the nearby manhole, then look nearby for the horseshoe pits.  How many horseshoe posts are there?

With those numbers calculate the coordinates to WP 3.  Using WP 2 coordinates subtract 11 from the North coordinates, then multiply 45 by the number of horseshoe posts then add the number of letters in the word on the manhole.  Add this number to the West coordinates from WP 2 to get the rest of WP 3.

During this walk you will be passing near the other cache in this park if you want to hunt through the bamboo forest, it's not that tough if you have the right spot.

At WP 3 how many tree stumps do you see?  Project a waypoint from here. For Bearing use the number of stumps times 72. For distance in feet add the number of stumps to 726. Project to the final cache location.

Once there the cache is plainly visible and is not on private property. You will need to use the ages of Mathilda and Mr. Welmering (AABB) to access the cache.

I hope you enjoy the walk in Mathilda-Welmering Park!