Search for Pike County Indiana Cache in 1901

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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.), 24 April 1901

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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, April 24, 1901, Image 1 « Chronicling America « Library of Congress
 

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I couldn't find any other articles about Alvin Traylor searching for or finding buried money.

He lived near Cato:
Traylor Alvin 1906 npp.JPG

And owned this land as of 1910 map:
Traylor Alvin land 1910.JPG
 

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it's possible he got too many visits after the first one,
and decided not to update the media
 

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James Russell formerly owned 40 acres of Alvin's land. Maybe he was the gambler? Purchased it in 1893.
Probably the 40 acres in the NE1/4 NE1/4 sec 15 on the 1910 map.

Traylor Alvin purchased land 1893 npp.JPG
 

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I'm sure Coincidence, I doubt Street Hoods in N.O. were Familiar with the Deal 8 years before,
unless he bragged about his dads find

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unless most newspapers misspelled Alvin Traylor .. Trailer or Taylor or Allin or Allen or several other ways. and combinations,
which was possible back then. I've exhausted all my news paper sources
 

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You have a great talent for research and finding these old articles. I don't expect you to, but perhaps you could find something in the papers about the digging up of thousands of Native american bodies around 1870? from an alleged Indian war that happened near Lanesboro and Whalan Minnesota (the war predated the locals excavating the burial sites by what was estimated a few hundred years). Lanesboro is my home town. Lanesboro had a couple of papers during that time. There was also a paper in Preston Minnesota which is only a few miles from Lanesboro and the county seat. The one article i did read, said they dug up hundreds, if not thousands of bodies and it was reported the bones had almost completely decayed away too and they found tools and weapons and they were told by a local indian that it had been passed down through story that a warring party from Wisconsin had come over for some sort of retribution and this was a war on the banks of the Root River (which flows through Lanesboro and Whalan). I imagine the papers would have reported on the digs going on.
 

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You have a great talent for research and finding these old articles. I don't expect you to, but perhaps you could find something in the papers about the digging up of thousands of Native american bodies around 1870? from an alleged Indian war that happened near Lanesboro and Whalan Minnesota (the war predated the locals excavating the burial sites by what was estimated a few hundred years). Lanesboro is my home town. Lanesboro had a couple of papers during that time. There was also a paper in Preston Minnesota which is only a few miles from Lanesboro and the county seat. The one article i did read, said they dug up hundreds, if not thousands of bodies and it was reported the bones had almost completely decayed away too and they found tools and weapons and they were told by a local indian that it had been passed down through story that a warring party from Wisconsin had come over for some sort of retribution and this was a war on the banks of the Root River (which flows through Lanesboro and Whalan). I imagine the papers would have reported on the digs going on.


Checking . Not sure How Popular the Phrase "Native american" was back then
 

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