This one will be a tale of mystery and murder,It all started
when a wealthy man moved to a Missouri small town in the
1850's,he bought slaves with him,and purchased land and
had his slaves dig clay and fire it into bricks,he built a big
brick mansion,when the civil war broke out,he was tortured
and killed to reveal his hiding place for his money,every one
thought the redlegs got his money.Fast forward to 1940's
a hired black man was working for the new land owners
the new owner,s wife wanted a garden plowed behind the
house,while the black man hitched up a team the new
owners went to town,the black man started to plow up
behind the house and the plow hooked onto a metal
handle made of thick wire,he tried to get the wire out
it was hooked to a long copper bucket that had been sealed
with lead,the black man rolled it to his old car and got a
wood plank and moved it in his car and quickly went home
where his mother lived at and put the bucket in the corn
crib and covered it with ears of corn,he went back and
finished plowing.When he got off work he managed to
get the bucket open,it was full of old gold coins,he took
a few out and hid the bucket again in the corn crib,he then
took the gold coins and tried to sell them at the local bank,
the banker contacted the sherrif and the sherrif took the
black man out and tried to get him to tell where the got the
gold,we don,t know if the black man talked or not,but the
money was gone from the crib,and the black man ended
up floating in the river.This was told by the mans mother
to me in the late 1960,s.I cannot give names for obvious
reasons.........Kenjmor