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I wrote several of these Central Texas treasure-related articles in 2018 after I was first elected President of our Central Texas Treasure Club. At the time, I emailed copies only to dues-paid members as an additional benefit of being a member of our club. I've decided to make them public now so that others can realize the great potential for finding big treasures in our area. Searching for big treasure hoards and caches was what first got me interested in treasure hunting and metal detecting when I was a teenager. Hopefully, these stories will inspire some of you as well.
Buried & Lost Treasures of Central Texas #2 by Jay Longley
Lindsey S. Millard's Diary Treasures - Coleman County, Texas
While researching Central Texas history a couple of years ago, I came across excerpts from the diary of Lindsey S. Millard of Coleman County, Texas. I began reading his fascinating entries from the early 1900s. When he began mentioning digging for big treasures in his area, the diary became even more fascinating!
Millard wrote: "thare are plenty of money buried here if one could find it." He goes on to tell of his many attempts to find some of the numerous treasures in the Coleman County area that he believed were buried by Spaniards, Mexicans, priests, and 49ers as they passed through the area and encountered "Indians and robbers". In one passage from 1922, he tells of a treasure of "60 or 80 thousand dollars in gold". He was too late getting to that cache and assumed that Mexicans had beat him to it. Remember that gold was worth only $20 an ounce in 1922 whereas today, it's worth over 60 times that so if my math is correct, $60 thousand in gold back then is worth over $4.2 million today, just in melt value.
These accounts are very valuable to treasure hunters who are willing and able to take the time and research these Coleman County treasures because they give Millard's fellow treasure hunters' names, landowners' names, and very good descriptions of the areas where they believed the treasures were buried.
I spent most of one night reading the entire webpage and taking treasure-related notes from it. When you finish reading my notes (below) I strongly encourage you to read the entire Millard diary excerpts at the link because it gives several references to other Coleman County sites and events that could pay off good for detectorists searching for old coins and relics.
IMPORTANT - These articles were written by me based on many years of researching and searching for treasures in Central Texas and they are intended ONLY for the benefit of dues-paying Central Texas Treasure Club members. Please do not share with anyone else! If you know someone who would like access to all of these articles, let them know that they can receive each of them by joining our club.
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My Notes:
Treasure in Coleman County, Texas
From: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/.../mill...
January 14 (1915) - Thursday. Clear warm and a fine day. Pulled cotton for Dick Todd. Some cotton hauled in town and the new neighbors moved in town. Everybody is at work
again. Som a plowen and som sowen oats. When up at town Mr John Campbell com to me and we went over to Mr John Thornhills and Mr Casey and a Mr Tucker were thare a talking on buried treasures in Coleman County. Buried by the Roman Catholic Preast here in Texas in early day of Texas history settlement and wanted to hunt buried treasures on my place but had to git Mr Philips who knows a plot and Mr Thronhill will find it. Thay have to find a Cedar stump and a Mr Fitsgerald has the Cedar tree and I don’t supose that he will give up the tree. He have found the treasure. I promised to all go in and devide. If the treasure was found. I don’t know when they will come to look for the lost treasure.
***
March 4 (1915) - Thursday. Heavy clouds, wet. A norther. Dug for money and in a mound down on Mud Creek, found a skeleton of a man. Cold and we quit.
***
May 22 (1915) - Saturday. Cloudy and sunshine, warm. A good breeze a blowing. Plowing corn and choped in the garden. Crops a growen. Som cotton and maze just planted. Mr Will Casey come and told me that Mr Thronhill had come back and was ready to hunt for the buried Mexican treasure or mine.
***
January 31 (1919) - Friday. A cold dark cloud come up from the West and looked like rain and snow stayed on nearly all day. Planted my onion sets, the white ones. Dug post holes and cut post. Cleared off, some warmer. Richard Smith went up above Coleman to look for more Indian relicks. Elder has found where a Indian Chief was buried and has wash out, he found beads, bracelets, arrow points and a old flint lock pistol and other things. Must have been a big chief and a one that was a fighting the Texas rangers.
***
Feb 24, 1919 - Monday. I sowed wheat. Cloudy and didn’t plow, cleared off in the evening. Sewed received my male. Got Hobys and my papers. Will be cool to night. To cold to work out. Sent off 3 letters and received one. Mr Wiley Smith showed me the Indian relics that Lee and Elder had found on Rough Creek and the Indian Chief head, steel arrow point, silver ____, and Peace pipe, piece of Sword. Indian Head skull. He wanted to sell them to me.
***
March 9, 1919 - Sunday. A cloudy cold morning. So cold didn’t go out. A frost. Stayed home and reading my books. It got where no one comes. Times and people has changed. Never be like times were before the world war. Were up against a time when we will have to face a hard ship of want, till we make a crop. I don’t know how we will get throu, every thing so Hi and no credit. Money a given out. Now a coming in the wind. The other night set a oil well on fire. Mr Hill found two skeletons, was out in his field of early days of Texas
***
April 21, 1919 - Monday. Cool, clear and dry. Finish harrowing and plowing. Plant cane in the evening. Land is giting dry and seed are not a coming up good. We need rain and warm wether. A big debate at Liberty to night. I didn’t go. Wiley Smith sent word that he would go up to Rough Creek on Tuesday to see Elder and I could go and see the Indian grave and camp.
***
April 22 (1919) - Tuesday. After hoeing in the garden. Walked up to town and met Wiley Smith and went with him up to Coleman and to Novice and Silver valley. Dry need rain the farmers were a plowing, some a planting cotton and plant cane. Some had som of there crops up, cane, maze, corn and cotton. Wheat we saw a patch headed out. All grain needed rain. We went to Mr Smith’s son-in -law, Leroy and stayed all night on a ranch, the land is a sand and ashey colored lome. Wheat was good, the Leroys showed me the Indian Chiefs arrow steel points, bullets, brass, braclets, bridle spur, bullets and flint lock gun hamer and some other relicks found in the cliff on Rough creek. Next morning we went over to Elders Smith in 8 miles of Rough Creek and went over to Rough Creek east a rockey pasture. A few horses.
April 23 (1919) - Wednesday. We visited the ancient mound and Indian grave on Rough Creek dug and fish but didn’t find any thing. A old Indian camping place and Burial Place in the rocks in the cliffs. A strange county not fit for farming, only in places , so rockey.
***
Feb 18, 1922 - Saturday. The first of the week were cold and not much plowing, cleared off. We have, I plowed some ground hard. Ely Smith come down from Liberty an wanted to sell me a riden plow at 30 dollars. He said, when he was here before as he went home he found a red barle in a bunch of bushes in Burks pasture, some boot lager a making whiskey. My black sow had pigs, We lost 4 only 10 left. And Ely wanted 3 at $2.50 a pice, $7.50cts. Mr Cline that has been a digen on the Davies place for a buried treasure has got down 50 feet or more and hasn’t found the money yet. And his money is give out of a finding the treasure.
And his money has give out to get help thare are plenty of money buried here if one could find it. When I come her thare were marks all over the country both mines and buried treasures. The Spaniards, Mexicans and Preast a passing thou a fighting the Indians and robbers. And among the Santa Anna mountains was a landmark for passing to New Mexico and Colorado, California and the Rocky Mountains. A way back and the 49 ers.
March 24, 1922 - Friday. A hi south wind and plowed before night, heavy clouds over cast from the west and at night lightning north and during the night a good rain fell. And on 25th Saturday morning we had a good season in the ground. Some water in the tanks. The thunderstorms rolled and the clouds passed and a good rain fell.
Were glad to git the rain. And we were a digen for water. Bud Brannan had drill down200 feet and found no water and the that had wells some got water, others haden’t found water. Felix Smith a digen on the Creek struck cole ashes, fire cole and rotin wood down 20 feet in the bed of the creek. Mudd Creek near Bud Brannan’s thare was mineral mix with the cole and fire cole ashes and roten wood and impressions of leaves under mix yellowed clay and top of a lime stone rock and he quit as the rock had to be blasted. Felix thought thare was money buried there. I saw no sign, all look natural clay rock and cole ashes, fire cole was put thare in the making of the world. Up the hill where we dug a well throu clay and sand we went in a foot of white sand then struck sulphur sand and as far as we went down was sand no water. We have rain now maybe we won’t have to dig any more.
April 2 - Sunday. Has been cloudy all day, a blustry south wind, heavy clouds, slow rain to night the wind a coming from the south a whiping and a quite a gale. Went on to the Wallas Place where Mr Petty lives, went the place where Felix Smith dug the well in Mudd Creek and found cole, ashes, cement and mineral like gold and the acid put on it wouldn’t desolve it.
May 14 (1922) - Sunday. A warm to cool day with East wind. Taken my dun mare to Todd’s stud and she taken him. Mr Parker come and we looked over the land on Wafford Place where were buried 60 or 80 thousand dollars in gold mark with 3 piles of burnt sacks. And I didn’t know money was buried thare till it was to late. Some one else dug it up, Mexicans i suppose. Cloudy day and a heavy rain come to night, no plowing or planting for several days. We don’t hunt enough or dig enough to ever find buried treasures.
June 4 (1922) - Sunday. In the evening we went down to the Cedar Brakes and looked at the rocks and soil, trees and flowers and went to the well that was drill down thare and the cole and shale, and rocks, soil are all like sand rock, lime rock, iron rock. Clays are all the same only different colors, different make with cedar, post oak, musquet, live oak and a growing on it a lot of sand and sand rock in places. We looked for money marks found trees cu off and sawed off and rocks too marked places and the Mexicans or some one had dug 3 big wholes and found some of the money and made off with it. I had been over to little cedar mountain many a time and never saw the marks and miss a giting the money thare were on a cedar tree LEM or H. and a big hole with water tad poles in it and thay were a swiming and on there backs. Something were wrong. Sumners, and Richard, Wiley Smith was down and Wiley said, someone had tried to reck there car by puting bolts and tops in it. It looks like we would have a short crop if it were to turn off dry. Some corn are a tasling. We have beans.
June 11, 1922 - I come home and fed the hogs and Samson said, Mr Mobley, Pette , and Claude Prescott an archeologist was out at the Indian mound and a rattler snake had come and they wanted to kill it, he had struck. And a Indian skeleton buried in the mound. And he showed me relic and pictures from Mexico central and South America. And he had the Idols, knife made of natures glass and arrow head jade and ornaments that come from Asia.
June 12, 1922 - Monday. Planted corn, no rain, cloudy, sunshine. Some one is a prowling around night and day a watching us. I went up town and saw Prescott and he give me some arrow points and a chines, coin and some stamps and he has a fine collection of relicks from Mexico and Panama.
And he lent me the Chattanooga Daily Rebel No 279, June 28 1883 vol 1, Sunday morning Pub by Frome M. Pool about the war between the States. A paper and wild hog hunt in the Republic of Panama by Claude T. Prescott. He let me have magazine, Sunday April 17, 1921, Relic of Ages found in hills of Mexico. Relics of Ancient American Art Exhume by Marco Elder. Mr Prescott has been in the country of the Ancient people of Mexico and South America and saw the wonders of the world of the pass.
June 14, 1922 - Wednesday.
June 15 - Thursday. Clear, war and as I was expecting Mr C. J. Prescott to come. I moved my books , magazines, papers, and hunted my relicks and he didn’t come. And I didn’t find as much as I thought I had. Mr Prescott give me 2 arrow points from Louisiana and Arkansas and he give the copy of the Rebel and some stamps and old coins.
June 16 - Friday. Plowed cotton and pop corn. And Mr Prescott come. I let him have some arrow points and bullets and other relics and Samson let him have some arrow points and a box of cacta. And he dug in the mound and found some remains of people probable Indians. Had been buried so long all were gone and maybe thay had been dug in several times before a hunting money.
June 17 - Saturday. Started to chop grass and weeds and Samson went to town and a good rain come this evening. We sure need it as crops were suffering for rain. Mr Prescott spoke of diging for treasures and relics in Mexico, South of Mexico City in the valley over hills and mountains a walled city for 40 miles and 10 to 20 feet or deeper, one can dig and find relics, vessels,. Jewelry, images, gold and jade and many other things. You have to have a picture taken and leave one thare to keep and one give one when you come out a bringing your find out with the agent of Mexico. For ages people have lived and been destroyed and others come up maybe 10 thousand or 100 thousand years. And thay were fine workman, artist and lost art today. A world of the past ages, when the people lived sociable, Socialist call them hetherns and thare are hethens to day as of old.
June 24 (1922) - Saturday. We have been all the week a choping grass and weeds and I dug pits to put my relics. As some one had stole most of the best ones in our pit and I put most of them in the house. Thay even got in the house and stole them. My arrow points, and grinders and other things. The hell hounds has been a laying around and a stealing and watching us for 2 months and I don’t know how much longer, don’t know how long thay have been going in the pit or out of the house. I suppose it was old hethen Jim Kile and his mob, the hell hounds has been a roben me ever since come to Coleman County. I ought to have know better than to put then out in a pit and not have covered them with a lode of rocks.
July 14, 1922 Ely Smith was over from Liberty and said that Mr Parker had got up and left and hadn’t told where he was a going. Don’t know wether he had found any treasures yet. He had been a hunting in the Cedar Breaks for money burned. We found two places where money had been dug up.
August 14 and 15 Cloud up like rain clouds and still not much wind. Tuesday the clouds are heavy. Found some arrow points, scrapers and broken grinders and other Indian flint in Todd’s field on Allen Creek. This evening a good rain fell and won’t have to haul water.
Aug 31, 1922 - Thursday. Last day and the moon is a shining again. Night cooler, some clouds but dry. Received my Liteary Review August 26 and letter from Bank. I found a good scraper and broken arrow points on Mudd Creek down near the Bridge. Where the Indian camp long ago. The plow and over flow are a carrying off all the good specimens.
Jan 7, 1923 - Sunday. A clear warm day light winds and not much stiring around. Was over to Henry Smith and went out and looked over where old money marks burnt treasures. And that man Parker that was here had removed the marks, it is suposed that he found burned treasure as he disapeared and haven’t com back nor sent word of where he went to.
March 1, 1923 - Thursday. Clear warm. Henry Smith come and some Mexicans a was seen a going from Smith place to my hill where the pecan trees and cedar to look for the hiden lost mine and a big fat man followed behind. They were looking for a hiden buried treasure.
Clear, warmer . Fields a giting dry so the people have comence plowing. We went and dug over on the Henderson Place couldn’t find any sign of buried treasures. As I come home I saw the 2 Mexicans thay had been a hunting for money signs maybe thay had a plot as thay went to a mound on Felix Smith’s Place north of me.
March 25 (1923) - Sunday. The months nearly out and nothing plowed only corn. The ground are a giting dry. Clear and warmer up to 80 deg. Ely Smith come and talk money and buried treasures and showed me a rock shaped like a wether it was made or just natural, I couldn’t tell, it looked like had been used. He found it where money had been burned, he said.
March 27 (1923) - Tuesday. Cold, Cloudy with rain and a cold spell with the oaks a puting out. The fruit trees a blooming. Ely and Felix come over to dig for money was to cold and rainy. So wet and cold, can’t plant.
~ Jay Longley
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Buried & Lost Treasures of Central Texas #2 by Jay Longley
Lindsey S. Millard's Diary Treasures - Coleman County, Texas
While researching Central Texas history a couple of years ago, I came across excerpts from the diary of Lindsey S. Millard of Coleman County, Texas. I began reading his fascinating entries from the early 1900s. When he began mentioning digging for big treasures in his area, the diary became even more fascinating!
Millard wrote: "thare are plenty of money buried here if one could find it." He goes on to tell of his many attempts to find some of the numerous treasures in the Coleman County area that he believed were buried by Spaniards, Mexicans, priests, and 49ers as they passed through the area and encountered "Indians and robbers". In one passage from 1922, he tells of a treasure of "60 or 80 thousand dollars in gold". He was too late getting to that cache and assumed that Mexicans had beat him to it. Remember that gold was worth only $20 an ounce in 1922 whereas today, it's worth over 60 times that so if my math is correct, $60 thousand in gold back then is worth over $4.2 million today, just in melt value.
These accounts are very valuable to treasure hunters who are willing and able to take the time and research these Coleman County treasures because they give Millard's fellow treasure hunters' names, landowners' names, and very good descriptions of the areas where they believed the treasures were buried.
I spent most of one night reading the entire webpage and taking treasure-related notes from it. When you finish reading my notes (below) I strongly encourage you to read the entire Millard diary excerpts at the link because it gives several references to other Coleman County sites and events that could pay off good for detectorists searching for old coins and relics.
IMPORTANT - These articles were written by me based on many years of researching and searching for treasures in Central Texas and they are intended ONLY for the benefit of dues-paying Central Texas Treasure Club members. Please do not share with anyone else! If you know someone who would like access to all of these articles, let them know that they can receive each of them by joining our club.
***
My Notes:
Treasure in Coleman County, Texas
From: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/.../mill...
January 14 (1915) - Thursday. Clear warm and a fine day. Pulled cotton for Dick Todd. Some cotton hauled in town and the new neighbors moved in town. Everybody is at work
again. Som a plowen and som sowen oats. When up at town Mr John Campbell com to me and we went over to Mr John Thornhills and Mr Casey and a Mr Tucker were thare a talking on buried treasures in Coleman County. Buried by the Roman Catholic Preast here in Texas in early day of Texas history settlement and wanted to hunt buried treasures on my place but had to git Mr Philips who knows a plot and Mr Thronhill will find it. Thay have to find a Cedar stump and a Mr Fitsgerald has the Cedar tree and I don’t supose that he will give up the tree. He have found the treasure. I promised to all go in and devide. If the treasure was found. I don’t know when they will come to look for the lost treasure.
***
March 4 (1915) - Thursday. Heavy clouds, wet. A norther. Dug for money and in a mound down on Mud Creek, found a skeleton of a man. Cold and we quit.
***
May 22 (1915) - Saturday. Cloudy and sunshine, warm. A good breeze a blowing. Plowing corn and choped in the garden. Crops a growen. Som cotton and maze just planted. Mr Will Casey come and told me that Mr Thronhill had come back and was ready to hunt for the buried Mexican treasure or mine.
***
January 31 (1919) - Friday. A cold dark cloud come up from the West and looked like rain and snow stayed on nearly all day. Planted my onion sets, the white ones. Dug post holes and cut post. Cleared off, some warmer. Richard Smith went up above Coleman to look for more Indian relicks. Elder has found where a Indian Chief was buried and has wash out, he found beads, bracelets, arrow points and a old flint lock pistol and other things. Must have been a big chief and a one that was a fighting the Texas rangers.
***
Feb 24, 1919 - Monday. I sowed wheat. Cloudy and didn’t plow, cleared off in the evening. Sewed received my male. Got Hobys and my papers. Will be cool to night. To cold to work out. Sent off 3 letters and received one. Mr Wiley Smith showed me the Indian relics that Lee and Elder had found on Rough Creek and the Indian Chief head, steel arrow point, silver ____, and Peace pipe, piece of Sword. Indian Head skull. He wanted to sell them to me.
***
March 9, 1919 - Sunday. A cloudy cold morning. So cold didn’t go out. A frost. Stayed home and reading my books. It got where no one comes. Times and people has changed. Never be like times were before the world war. Were up against a time when we will have to face a hard ship of want, till we make a crop. I don’t know how we will get throu, every thing so Hi and no credit. Money a given out. Now a coming in the wind. The other night set a oil well on fire. Mr Hill found two skeletons, was out in his field of early days of Texas
***
April 21, 1919 - Monday. Cool, clear and dry. Finish harrowing and plowing. Plant cane in the evening. Land is giting dry and seed are not a coming up good. We need rain and warm wether. A big debate at Liberty to night. I didn’t go. Wiley Smith sent word that he would go up to Rough Creek on Tuesday to see Elder and I could go and see the Indian grave and camp.
***
April 22 (1919) - Tuesday. After hoeing in the garden. Walked up to town and met Wiley Smith and went with him up to Coleman and to Novice and Silver valley. Dry need rain the farmers were a plowing, some a planting cotton and plant cane. Some had som of there crops up, cane, maze, corn and cotton. Wheat we saw a patch headed out. All grain needed rain. We went to Mr Smith’s son-in -law, Leroy and stayed all night on a ranch, the land is a sand and ashey colored lome. Wheat was good, the Leroys showed me the Indian Chiefs arrow steel points, bullets, brass, braclets, bridle spur, bullets and flint lock gun hamer and some other relicks found in the cliff on Rough creek. Next morning we went over to Elders Smith in 8 miles of Rough Creek and went over to Rough Creek east a rockey pasture. A few horses.
April 23 (1919) - Wednesday. We visited the ancient mound and Indian grave on Rough Creek dug and fish but didn’t find any thing. A old Indian camping place and Burial Place in the rocks in the cliffs. A strange county not fit for farming, only in places , so rockey.
***
Feb 18, 1922 - Saturday. The first of the week were cold and not much plowing, cleared off. We have, I plowed some ground hard. Ely Smith come down from Liberty an wanted to sell me a riden plow at 30 dollars. He said, when he was here before as he went home he found a red barle in a bunch of bushes in Burks pasture, some boot lager a making whiskey. My black sow had pigs, We lost 4 only 10 left. And Ely wanted 3 at $2.50 a pice, $7.50cts. Mr Cline that has been a digen on the Davies place for a buried treasure has got down 50 feet or more and hasn’t found the money yet. And his money is give out of a finding the treasure.
And his money has give out to get help thare are plenty of money buried here if one could find it. When I come her thare were marks all over the country both mines and buried treasures. The Spaniards, Mexicans and Preast a passing thou a fighting the Indians and robbers. And among the Santa Anna mountains was a landmark for passing to New Mexico and Colorado, California and the Rocky Mountains. A way back and the 49 ers.
March 24, 1922 - Friday. A hi south wind and plowed before night, heavy clouds over cast from the west and at night lightning north and during the night a good rain fell. And on 25th Saturday morning we had a good season in the ground. Some water in the tanks. The thunderstorms rolled and the clouds passed and a good rain fell.
Were glad to git the rain. And we were a digen for water. Bud Brannan had drill down200 feet and found no water and the that had wells some got water, others haden’t found water. Felix Smith a digen on the Creek struck cole ashes, fire cole and rotin wood down 20 feet in the bed of the creek. Mudd Creek near Bud Brannan’s thare was mineral mix with the cole and fire cole ashes and roten wood and impressions of leaves under mix yellowed clay and top of a lime stone rock and he quit as the rock had to be blasted. Felix thought thare was money buried there. I saw no sign, all look natural clay rock and cole ashes, fire cole was put thare in the making of the world. Up the hill where we dug a well throu clay and sand we went in a foot of white sand then struck sulphur sand and as far as we went down was sand no water. We have rain now maybe we won’t have to dig any more.
April 2 - Sunday. Has been cloudy all day, a blustry south wind, heavy clouds, slow rain to night the wind a coming from the south a whiping and a quite a gale. Went on to the Wallas Place where Mr Petty lives, went the place where Felix Smith dug the well in Mudd Creek and found cole, ashes, cement and mineral like gold and the acid put on it wouldn’t desolve it.
May 14 (1922) - Sunday. A warm to cool day with East wind. Taken my dun mare to Todd’s stud and she taken him. Mr Parker come and we looked over the land on Wafford Place where were buried 60 or 80 thousand dollars in gold mark with 3 piles of burnt sacks. And I didn’t know money was buried thare till it was to late. Some one else dug it up, Mexicans i suppose. Cloudy day and a heavy rain come to night, no plowing or planting for several days. We don’t hunt enough or dig enough to ever find buried treasures.
June 4 (1922) - Sunday. In the evening we went down to the Cedar Brakes and looked at the rocks and soil, trees and flowers and went to the well that was drill down thare and the cole and shale, and rocks, soil are all like sand rock, lime rock, iron rock. Clays are all the same only different colors, different make with cedar, post oak, musquet, live oak and a growing on it a lot of sand and sand rock in places. We looked for money marks found trees cu off and sawed off and rocks too marked places and the Mexicans or some one had dug 3 big wholes and found some of the money and made off with it. I had been over to little cedar mountain many a time and never saw the marks and miss a giting the money thare were on a cedar tree LEM or H. and a big hole with water tad poles in it and thay were a swiming and on there backs. Something were wrong. Sumners, and Richard, Wiley Smith was down and Wiley said, someone had tried to reck there car by puting bolts and tops in it. It looks like we would have a short crop if it were to turn off dry. Some corn are a tasling. We have beans.
June 11, 1922 - I come home and fed the hogs and Samson said, Mr Mobley, Pette , and Claude Prescott an archeologist was out at the Indian mound and a rattler snake had come and they wanted to kill it, he had struck. And a Indian skeleton buried in the mound. And he showed me relic and pictures from Mexico central and South America. And he had the Idols, knife made of natures glass and arrow head jade and ornaments that come from Asia.
June 12, 1922 - Monday. Planted corn, no rain, cloudy, sunshine. Some one is a prowling around night and day a watching us. I went up town and saw Prescott and he give me some arrow points and a chines, coin and some stamps and he has a fine collection of relicks from Mexico and Panama.
And he lent me the Chattanooga Daily Rebel No 279, June 28 1883 vol 1, Sunday morning Pub by Frome M. Pool about the war between the States. A paper and wild hog hunt in the Republic of Panama by Claude T. Prescott. He let me have magazine, Sunday April 17, 1921, Relic of Ages found in hills of Mexico. Relics of Ancient American Art Exhume by Marco Elder. Mr Prescott has been in the country of the Ancient people of Mexico and South America and saw the wonders of the world of the pass.
June 14, 1922 - Wednesday.
June 15 - Thursday. Clear, war and as I was expecting Mr C. J. Prescott to come. I moved my books , magazines, papers, and hunted my relicks and he didn’t come. And I didn’t find as much as I thought I had. Mr Prescott give me 2 arrow points from Louisiana and Arkansas and he give the copy of the Rebel and some stamps and old coins.
June 16 - Friday. Plowed cotton and pop corn. And Mr Prescott come. I let him have some arrow points and bullets and other relics and Samson let him have some arrow points and a box of cacta. And he dug in the mound and found some remains of people probable Indians. Had been buried so long all were gone and maybe thay had been dug in several times before a hunting money.
June 17 - Saturday. Started to chop grass and weeds and Samson went to town and a good rain come this evening. We sure need it as crops were suffering for rain. Mr Prescott spoke of diging for treasures and relics in Mexico, South of Mexico City in the valley over hills and mountains a walled city for 40 miles and 10 to 20 feet or deeper, one can dig and find relics, vessels,. Jewelry, images, gold and jade and many other things. You have to have a picture taken and leave one thare to keep and one give one when you come out a bringing your find out with the agent of Mexico. For ages people have lived and been destroyed and others come up maybe 10 thousand or 100 thousand years. And thay were fine workman, artist and lost art today. A world of the past ages, when the people lived sociable, Socialist call them hetherns and thare are hethens to day as of old.
June 24 (1922) - Saturday. We have been all the week a choping grass and weeds and I dug pits to put my relics. As some one had stole most of the best ones in our pit and I put most of them in the house. Thay even got in the house and stole them. My arrow points, and grinders and other things. The hell hounds has been a laying around and a stealing and watching us for 2 months and I don’t know how much longer, don’t know how long thay have been going in the pit or out of the house. I suppose it was old hethen Jim Kile and his mob, the hell hounds has been a roben me ever since come to Coleman County. I ought to have know better than to put then out in a pit and not have covered them with a lode of rocks.
July 14, 1922 Ely Smith was over from Liberty and said that Mr Parker had got up and left and hadn’t told where he was a going. Don’t know wether he had found any treasures yet. He had been a hunting in the Cedar Breaks for money burned. We found two places where money had been dug up.
August 14 and 15 Cloud up like rain clouds and still not much wind. Tuesday the clouds are heavy. Found some arrow points, scrapers and broken grinders and other Indian flint in Todd’s field on Allen Creek. This evening a good rain fell and won’t have to haul water.
Aug 31, 1922 - Thursday. Last day and the moon is a shining again. Night cooler, some clouds but dry. Received my Liteary Review August 26 and letter from Bank. I found a good scraper and broken arrow points on Mudd Creek down near the Bridge. Where the Indian camp long ago. The plow and over flow are a carrying off all the good specimens.
Jan 7, 1923 - Sunday. A clear warm day light winds and not much stiring around. Was over to Henry Smith and went out and looked over where old money marks burnt treasures. And that man Parker that was here had removed the marks, it is suposed that he found burned treasure as he disapeared and haven’t com back nor sent word of where he went to.
March 1, 1923 - Thursday. Clear warm. Henry Smith come and some Mexicans a was seen a going from Smith place to my hill where the pecan trees and cedar to look for the hiden lost mine and a big fat man followed behind. They were looking for a hiden buried treasure.
Clear, warmer . Fields a giting dry so the people have comence plowing. We went and dug over on the Henderson Place couldn’t find any sign of buried treasures. As I come home I saw the 2 Mexicans thay had been a hunting for money signs maybe thay had a plot as thay went to a mound on Felix Smith’s Place north of me.
March 25 (1923) - Sunday. The months nearly out and nothing plowed only corn. The ground are a giting dry. Clear and warmer up to 80 deg. Ely Smith come and talk money and buried treasures and showed me a rock shaped like a wether it was made or just natural, I couldn’t tell, it looked like had been used. He found it where money had been burned, he said.
March 27 (1923) - Tuesday. Cold, Cloudy with rain and a cold spell with the oaks a puting out. The fruit trees a blooming. Ely and Felix come over to dig for money was to cold and rainy. So wet and cold, can’t plant.
~ Jay Longley
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