SINCE YOU ASKED - TENNESSEE LEADS

[Siegfried Schlagrule]

SUMMER COUNTY - GALLATIN ... DAVID LANG was a prosperous farmer in 1880. His farm was a few miles from town. On 23 Sep 1880 he disappeared in broad daylight from his pasture in front of witnesses. He was never found and never returned. One of the eye witnesses was JUDGE PECK. source page 15, STRANGER THAN SCIENCE BY FRANK EDWARDS (1959)
KNOX COUNTY - HUGHES TAVERN ... early 1800s was located a few miles west of KNOXVILLE. When it appeared he was a HARPE accomplice he was flogged. His house was torn down and he was driven from the country. source PAGE 65, THE OUTLAWS OF CAVE-IN-ROCK BY OTTO A. ROTHERT (1924)

 

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[RustyRelicHunter]

Another TN lead: I found this in a SC newspaper dated 6-31-1920. Mr. H. B. Crone, an employee of Old Hickory Powder Plant in Nashville was arrested for the theft of several thousand dollars worth of platinum from the company. The article stated that he refused to disclose the location of the platinum. This might be worth following up by reading local papers to learn the final outcome of the case.

 

[Bob B.]

Have you heard of the buried Union Gold at Owl Creek just east of Lexington, Tn.? Several expeditions were sent to recover it even a couple of the guys who helped bury it came on the first one ( they had died prior to the second) nothing has ever been found, 1,000,000. in gold, two wagon loads happened in Dec. 1862 when
the Union Forces was out running Forrest after his raid on Jackson, Tn. and just prior to his recrossing the Tenn. River.