Cheesecake Hunk
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This is a story that my grandfather told me a few weeks before he died about a cache of coins. Let me give you a little history. My great grand father was rich and own over 12000 acres of land. He owned many houses that he rented out or let people live in that worked on the farm. He owned several sawmills.
My grandfather told me this story that in 1921 or 1922 that his father cashed in almost all of his paper money in to coins. He said this took months to get it changed at the banks because he did not want to draw attention to him self. After he got it changed he had a pot made that would hold all the coins and the pot had a lid on it that would cover it. My grandfather said that he had about 3 acres plowed up around the house so when he buried the pot no one would see where. He said one night when everyone had gone to sleep that great grandfather had went and dug the hole and came and woke him up and he went and help him put the pot in the hole and put the coins in and sent him back to bed, then he cover it back up and grandfather said you could not tell where it was buried the next day. He told my grandfather with the crooks in the white house that he did not trust banks anymore.(Man does that have a ring to it today) My grandfather said he had forgot about the money till after my great grandfather passed away in a car wreck 40 years later. He said he told one of his brothers about it and they spent weeks digging holes all over the place where he thought it might have been buried. He said that he was a young man then 40 years passed buy between the buried and the looking part and did not remember the exact location of it. OK here is where the problems comes in to this, after great grandfather died the land was bought by the government and turned into a wildlife reserve. They lease part of it for farming and the part the coins would be on is leased buy bad people. The way I know this is my uncle and my self went to the land five years ago and was walking around looking and two trucks with four men with rifles got out and told us we were on posted land and to leave . I tried to tell them that this was my great grandfathers land at one time they said they could care less and if we knew what was good for us we should be on our way. So some one is watching the land for cars and people to get there in a matter of a few minutes after we got there. I know this story sounds untrue but after his death there was very little money had by his kids. The government stole the land for 5 cents an acre. I have seen the mineral rights to the land it is still in the family name, would this give me a leg to stand on to reclaim the coins. Bring bigger guns ? What you think or what would you do in this case?
My grandfather told me this story that in 1921 or 1922 that his father cashed in almost all of his paper money in to coins. He said this took months to get it changed at the banks because he did not want to draw attention to him self. After he got it changed he had a pot made that would hold all the coins and the pot had a lid on it that would cover it. My grandfather said that he had about 3 acres plowed up around the house so when he buried the pot no one would see where. He said one night when everyone had gone to sleep that great grandfather had went and dug the hole and came and woke him up and he went and help him put the pot in the hole and put the coins in and sent him back to bed, then he cover it back up and grandfather said you could not tell where it was buried the next day. He told my grandfather with the crooks in the white house that he did not trust banks anymore.(Man does that have a ring to it today) My grandfather said he had forgot about the money till after my great grandfather passed away in a car wreck 40 years later. He said he told one of his brothers about it and they spent weeks digging holes all over the place where he thought it might have been buried. He said that he was a young man then 40 years passed buy between the buried and the looking part and did not remember the exact location of it. OK here is where the problems comes in to this, after great grandfather died the land was bought by the government and turned into a wildlife reserve. They lease part of it for farming and the part the coins would be on is leased buy bad people. The way I know this is my uncle and my self went to the land five years ago and was walking around looking and two trucks with four men with rifles got out and told us we were on posted land and to leave . I tried to tell them that this was my great grandfathers land at one time they said they could care less and if we knew what was good for us we should be on our way. So some one is watching the land for cars and people to get there in a matter of a few minutes after we got there. I know this story sounds untrue but after his death there was very little money had by his kids. The government stole the land for 5 cents an acre. I have seen the mineral rights to the land it is still in the family name, would this give me a leg to stand on to reclaim the coins. Bring bigger guns ? What you think or what would you do in this case?
