Re: I'd call this lady but...
Ok the update on Patsy. But a little history is necessary on the area I found it in.
I was searching a parcel of land that was once (mid 1800's-1930's) called a Poor House Farm. Now, I was always told that it was where poor people lived before we had the welfare system. I knew it was riddled with graves.. how did I know...well for starters they were poor, when they died they put them in a pine box, no markers and buried them.
Well when I was 5yr. old, my father took a bull dozer to a tree, when it tobbled over, splinters of a coffin and parts of a skeleton rolled out of the ground.
Freaked me out as the skull came tumbling towards my mother and I. We called authorities at the time, they sent the remains off, it was the skeleton of a young woman, and they said she had probably died while living at the Poor Farm. Again around age 12, I was feeding up the animals, this one place on the ground had a dip in it, like a dried up mud hole. One day I stepped on it and it caved in
I was in up to my chest and squalling for my father. It gave an entire new meaning to dancing on someone's grave. We knew right away it was a grave, he filled it in and that was that. We ran into them digging post holes etc., same scenerio each time, move over a little and fill it in.
Old folks didn't talk about delicate matters much and it wasn't until I was communicating with the historians that I learned most of the Poor House Farms were peopled by inmates. She speculated that the key tag I had found was more than likely a dogtag worn by an inmate. She also informed me that Franklin did not house female inmates, they were sent to other nearby counties. The number on the tag would have been used to call relatives in case the inmate died. This is why I have taken out Patsy's last name on the photo. Again it is still speculation.
What I do know, if this is the case, I surely don't want to find her relatives and go up to them and say "hey, I found your great grandma's dogtag when she was in prison, thought you might like to have it"
![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
The rest of you guys find, rings, silver, gold, watches, toy cars, buckles, and braclets... and I find a long forgotten criminals dogtag.
P.S. No I did not need therapy as a child, :P
