I have found a lost treasure legend right in my "neighborhood." I can't believe it. I have had this local history book for several years now. I bought it to see if there was anything in there about this farm or the people who lived on it. I picked it up last night to scan through it again. Here's what I found:
" Shortly thereafter all of those tribes moved west. A story has been passed down that a year or so after the last Indians left this area, a young brave on a pony, rode in from the west. He stayed at the *********** farm looking for silver coins which his people had robbed from earlier settlers. These coins were supposed to be buried at the base of a tree. He rode back to the west, after a week or so, with an empty saddlebag. "
So, I look up a map to find this farm. My guess (hey this is new for me, so lots of room for error) is there is about 30-50 years between when the Indians moved west and when the map was made. There are a couple of farms right next to each other with that name. I am thinking maybe heirs split the farm. There has been development of course over these nearly 200 years. But, I have never heard this story before or any story of coins being found. I figured out that my older grandsons' other grandma currently lives on a fraction of one of these farms. Sounds like a place to start, don't you think? She is not real fond of us, but if I include the boys, she might be willing to give us the go ahead to look.