JackInFlorida
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- Feb 28, 2007
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- Fisher F75 - Whites PI Pro, Excal 1000
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- All Treasure Hunting
I first read this treasure story in W.C. Jameson's Book "Buried Treasures of New England". It interested me as it was near where I lived for a few years and I was going back to visit. I was intending to go back and visit this year again, so I wanted to do some more research.
Story goes that Alden Culver was a farmer in West Chesterfield and was always being attacked by Indians, but was good at fighting them off. He was successful and had a stash of coins that he buried in a lock box in the woods. As he got older and more wacky, he asked an Indian friend of his to bury the box of coins with him when he died. His wife passed away, he then gave the key to his daughter. When he passed, the friend buried him with the lock box. Later, his daughter passed away and the friend buried her next to him. He had inscribed their names on a rock nearby. All this supposedly took place in the early 1800's. There is more to the story about folks that have seen the inscriptions in 1936 and later.
My research found that there was an Alden Culver in Chesterfield MA. He was born in 1840, served in the Civil War and died sometime after 1900. This puts his birth almost exactly at the death of the Alden in the story. Research of the 1820 census does not show another Alden Culver in the state.
My belief is that this story is wind. I think it is more likely that Jimmy Hoffa is buried in West Chesterfield than the box of coins.
Jack
Story goes that Alden Culver was a farmer in West Chesterfield and was always being attacked by Indians, but was good at fighting them off. He was successful and had a stash of coins that he buried in a lock box in the woods. As he got older and more wacky, he asked an Indian friend of his to bury the box of coins with him when he died. His wife passed away, he then gave the key to his daughter. When he passed, the friend buried him with the lock box. Later, his daughter passed away and the friend buried her next to him. He had inscribed their names on a rock nearby. All this supposedly took place in the early 1800's. There is more to the story about folks that have seen the inscriptions in 1936 and later.
My research found that there was an Alden Culver in Chesterfield MA. He was born in 1840, served in the Civil War and died sometime after 1900. This puts his birth almost exactly at the death of the Alden in the story. Research of the 1820 census does not show another Alden Culver in the state.
My belief is that this story is wind. I think it is more likely that Jimmy Hoffa is buried in West Chesterfield than the box of coins.
Jack
