Cache in my own back yard.

[peasweet]

Hi Charlene:

I have a similar story. I would stay with my grandmother on the weekends. She was always planting and working in the garden and several times she handed me mason jars with rolls of money in it to put in the strawberry patch. She did not trust banks, and she lost her husband in WWI and got a "pension" every month so this is what so buried. Needless to say this land is no longer in our family, but I hope to gain access to dig there one day. I still drive by and no one has dug in that area of the old garden yet.

Peasweet.

 

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[Charlene]

Gosh Peasweet, did you're family ever dig up any of it before the place was sold? Either way I know it makes your mouth water, sure would mine. And I know its impossible to walk up to the new owners now and say "hey I wanna dig my grandma's cache out of the old strawberry patch, ya don't mind do ya?" lol. Maybe one day it will come up for sale, and you can call the realtor and say, "I"m gonna take a look around the old place, my grandma once lived there, no need to accompany me.

I'm plotting on detecting under an old barn thats on a piece of property I just bought 4 years ago. I can see it listed on the civil war maps of the area, so I know its got alot of history in the dirt. So excited to do so infact, I'm supposed to be on a plane for Nebraska tomorrow, so I'm getting up early enough to crawl under the old place and search before I leave... darn curosity is killing me I guess lol.

 

[ashleen]

..... she handed me mason jars with rolls of money in it to put in the strawberry patch.
Peasweet.

Ever think of approaching the current owners and ask if you could search the old strawberry patch for something you figured you (or Gram) lost there Maybe a family ring, your class ring, or Grampa's medal?... Might be worth a shot
Good luck + HH