Civil War Gold Near Clarence, Missouri

[Texas Jay]

If I lived in Missouri, this is one treasure lead that I'd certainly look into. John Chyle is said to have buried $30,000 in gold on his farm near Clarence during the Civil War to protect against theft by bushwhackers. That gold would be worth more than 100 times that amount today! If any of you Missourians find this cache, be sure to remember me and send me a few gold tokens of appreciation.
~Texas Jay
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...s&proxValue=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=15

 

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[traveller777]

Interesting story. You got any ideas on current land ownership and disposition?

 

[Texas Jay]

Interesting story. You got any ideas on current land ownership and disposition?

No, I have no more information. I have enough treasure leads closer to home to research but it should only require a trip to the County Clerk's and/or the county's tax appraisal office to find out the current landowners, by using the earlier owners' names from the article.
~Texas Jay

 

[HI-McDunnogh]

On a side note, another byline on that page msde my day..."Taste For Watermelon Ruin's Groundhogs Life."

 

[gunsil]

Pretty doubtful that a farmer would have $3,000 back then let alone $30,000!!

 

[PartisanRanger]

If I lived in Missouri, this is one treasure lead that I'd certainly look into. John Chyle is said to have buried $30,000 in gold on his farm near Clarence during the Civil War to protect against theft by bushwhackers. That gold would be worth more than 100 times that amount today! If any of you Missourians find this cache, be sure to remember me and send me a few gold tokens of appreciation.
~Texas Jay
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...s&proxValue=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=15

This so-called treasure has already been found. The current landowner is from the farmer's side of John and said it had been found. I know this because my friend and I went there and talked to him. He will not let people on his property. It is posted.

 

[Texas Jay]

This so-called treasure has already been found. The current landowner is from the farmer's side of John and said it had been found. I know this because my friend and I went there and talked to him. He will not let people on his property. It is posted.

Did he say how much the find was worth or when it was found?
~Texas Jay

 

[PartisanRanger]

Did he say how much the find was worth or when it was found?
~Texas Jay

he did not say. he was pretty much rude about the whole situation. very unfriendly person.

 

[Texas Jay]

he did not say. he was pretty much rude about the whole situation. very unfriendly person.

How did you learn that the treasure was there in the first place?

 

[PartisanRanger]

I was gathering notes for my manuscript on guerrilla activities here in Missouri and in my search, I was up in Macon County, Missouri collecting info for my book. On my way back to my friend's house at Troy, Missouri I stopped into Shelbina, Shelby County for gas and they had a museum there, so I stopped in. They have a library of civil war material and I started talking to the curator about what i was doing and she started to bring me all this info and in that material was the story of John's money. The curator did tell me that someone had been in and looked at this too. I did my digging and found the landowner and went to talk to him about this, and that is how I became acquainted with that story. It is a sad affair when landowners refuse to give permission to check out a story. He may have had trespassers at one time or another.