Cache in north central WV?

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I have been trying to find information about a cache that was left behind by Ezekiel Harper from St. George, WV. Ezekiel was murdered in the 1890's. He was a confederate soldier during the war and had been a gold prospector in California several times. He is said to have left a chest full of gold on his property somewhere the problem is he had 1000's of acres. In the early 1900's The CCC boys did some work on what would have been his property and took out a tunnel that led from his house to a nearby creek, I just wonder if the loot wasn't in the tunnel or buried around it. If anyone has any information it would be great. I have the book the history of Tucker County by Floyd Fansler it talks about the Harper family a good bit.
P.S. There was a group of people last year that claimed to be Ezekiel's family from Texas that paid to have his body exhumed. While they were digging my brother in law saw them so he stopped to see what was going on,they told him and while they were standing there with the body out and placed in a new coffin one o f the" family members" said they wished they had a metal detector. Well my brother in law said he had one if they would wait a few minutes he would go home and get it. They didn't find anything but it makes you wonder?

 

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cool story, guess the fam thinks he hid gold too
here is another book about the life an times, of EH and others
the book has quite a bit of info on EH, (wow a 19th century dan boone),
and the county,maybe EH property is near those caves, or could be
he had cave on his property, google his name lots of info comes up
oh yea in the book, maxwell speaks of letters of EH, maybe the tucker
historical society could help with those, if the letters are still around
HH cw


History of Tucker County, West Virginia : from the earliest explorations and settlements to the present time ; with biographical sketches of more than two hundred and fifty of the leading men, and a full appendix of official and electional history ; also, an account of the rivers, forests and caves of the county (1884)
Author: Maxwell, Hu, 1860-1927; Hyde, Henry Clay, 1855-1899


searchable text
https://archive.org/stream/historyoftuckerc00maxw#page/n7/mode/2up


an easier read, the E.H. sketch starts 220, the caves 130
https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE218305&from=fhd


database for more research
https://books.familysearch.org/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=FHD_PUBLIC

 

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Forgot about Maxwell I just downloded his book thanks