Kelley (Texas)
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When we bought our first ranch over in Gonzales County, buried money never entered out minds. This land had been in the seller's family since the days of the Texas Revolution.
There were seveal old barns that we decided to plow down...they were about to fall down anyway. One of the old barns was on a hill top, beside an old Live Oat Tree that we estimated to be well over one hundred years old. After we tore the old barn down, I turned the area into a holding pen for cows.
A few months later, I was in Gonzales and ran into the folks that we had bought the property from. We visited for a few minutes and decided to go to the Dairy Queen for lunch. While we were eating, I told them about tearing down the old barn, and just for fun told them that I had found an old jar full of silver coins at the site. For a moment or two, they became very quiet, but then started asking me where I had found the coins. They made mention of the fact that there was a rumor that the grandfather had buried money near that old barn and Live Oak Tree, but had died without telling anyone just where it was hidden. Well, I then told them that I was just joking and really had not found any silver coins. They laughed and we started talking about something else. We finished lunch and parted ways.
A few weeks later, their nephew came by the house on the way to fish in one of our stock tanks which we stocked with Catfish. During the visit, I told him that we would be gone for a few days to San Antonio, but he was free to come fish whether we were home or not.
When we returned from San Antonio, we discovered that someone had dug about a dozen deep holes around the old Live Oak Tree and where the old barn had been located. We asked the former owners about it, but they denied knowing anything...same with the nephew. We just filled the holes and never figured out who did it...guess we never will know who might have done it, but I think that it was the former owners looking for the loot that the grandfather was rumored to have buried there. Kelley (Texas)
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There were seveal old barns that we decided to plow down...they were about to fall down anyway. One of the old barns was on a hill top, beside an old Live Oat Tree that we estimated to be well over one hundred years old. After we tore the old barn down, I turned the area into a holding pen for cows.
A few months later, I was in Gonzales and ran into the folks that we had bought the property from. We visited for a few minutes and decided to go to the Dairy Queen for lunch. While we were eating, I told them about tearing down the old barn, and just for fun told them that I had found an old jar full of silver coins at the site. For a moment or two, they became very quiet, but then started asking me where I had found the coins. They made mention of the fact that there was a rumor that the grandfather had buried money near that old barn and Live Oak Tree, but had died without telling anyone just where it was hidden. Well, I then told them that I was just joking and really had not found any silver coins. They laughed and we started talking about something else. We finished lunch and parted ways.
A few weeks later, their nephew came by the house on the way to fish in one of our stock tanks which we stocked with Catfish. During the visit, I told him that we would be gone for a few days to San Antonio, but he was free to come fish whether we were home or not.
When we returned from San Antonio, we discovered that someone had dug about a dozen deep holes around the old Live Oak Tree and where the old barn had been located. We asked the former owners about it, but they denied knowing anything...same with the nephew. We just filled the holes and never figured out who did it...guess we never will know who might have done it, but I think that it was the former owners looking for the loot that the grandfather was rumored to have buried there. Kelley (Texas)
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