Show I 1 it fe F af 0 19 S V act ve I 1 plymouth jal ill man unearths Un unica earths ancient pewter full coina dating to 1856 7 by V C HEINE EORGE E familiarly known a as old farmer I 1 lawton la in a retired a W business bral us man who tor far the past tew few bit has been jl living ing the dream life in the village of plymouth ill and incidentally I 1 looking king a after ft ter hla him farm arm interests just outside the city limits he was passing through a wooded pasture past mingling j with nature old and mixing up with th the OP happy birds ind and squirrels squirrel when he saw aw something that clestan glistened cd under tinder the note of a large oak tree near a small brook break where the heavy r balna me had w washed shed out the soil moll securing a pick old farmer who had spent forty years in colorado soon had bad the object unearthed it proved to be an ancient pe pewter ter teapot of a design in use a cen can tury rely ago go the teapot contained contain ell 91 in 1 american gold in twenties tens five fives nod and dollars these bore dates danei from 1932 32 to 1806 there were we re ten I 1 dollars in I 1 silver quarters quarte zand and fifty mat cent pieces do dated led from 1823 to 1856 ind and a half dozen of tile the old large american cop per mat cent pieces dated from 1828 to 1851 1851 there them u were ere also a few feel english copper pl pieces some oe hewing bearing datte dates back into the a seventeen n teen hundreds and an english silver crown ere n dated 1847 the most moat interesting piece Is 1 about the size of I 1 E an r n american ten tea dollar doller 91 gold pirce piece evidently brass or ber bronze berrane raze ind and Is 1 a souvenir mou verole of the coronation of if queen victoria she shoeing a picture of the queen ench encircled C led by the e letters letter a in h her r name a I 1 in e 0 on the m reverse s e aide appears P m a gallant out knight on a horseback and the words word e to hanover 1111 1837 A As no le col coin I 1 Is dt dated d later than 1858 tem the pot must it hae a been burled buried shoot about that time the th majority majo r ty of the early plon eera who he settled allied in t this ht western central illinois known as the MI mill tary tract I 1 I 1 in IM 1835 to 1840 were wave a class ie of sturdy fludy and fairly well to do immigrant with large families who migrated from eastern art etalea late I 1 in the bu husbands bands being allotted forms farma by our g government in nees recognition phan or of their loyal services in th the his black it IS hawk awit war w ind and war of 1812 local real historic his torlea mile show the there vaa very little money in circulation in these theme parts until the railroad made its appearance pe arance in 1850 1856 up to then amr farm firs ere raised their own necessities of liffe life hauling av surplus 25 mile allea to the mississippi I 1 river where ban it wait waa ex changed fur for store blow clothing or imn tea ies th the felt fact that the teapot contained some nome english money would ind indicate leat that tyl whoever ioler burled buried it had bad at borne am time come from europe ind and retained A few pocket packet pieces the most moat plausible theory la Is that it was burled buried by one of the empl employees engaged in the con of it a raw new rail it road mad through plymouth the company WHO a two years 1854 ind and 1855 putting in a very cry deep fill and building a 8 large stone bridge over a creek a mile Us south month of at this village there a grader bradera camp vm vais established and many any irish lately from the old mill were ere employed A facelia of the name of shilds kept it hie boarding house among their board boar boarders dera ore one known as big mike a no most industrious and perot tile kind of fellow on pleasant sunday afternoons afternoon he would take the sulad children up the creek creak about 01 mile always stopping at one me bartlen let lar place about where tile the lawton farm is now new located the there he would lounge around a on the grow grass while the children picked seven flow erg or gathered nuts in celebrating the completion of the railroad the irish colony got into a P pitched battle with knives and shil alceed lalaha big mike was bowled staggering into the boarding house bouse he dropped dead ad in front frant of mrs hita his big murderer followed packed his him few personal belongings in a red bandanna and walked off down the he railroad never to be heard of again the excitement and shock hock care caused d mrs to give premature birth h to a child that night the next day big mike and the babe were wen placed in two homemade caffins ind and burled buried at the old haggard burying grounds just juat west went of town and the sad event soon forgotten the laborers a soon con after word ward migrated and their little it 1 town we of buta ban was abandoned the family established a home bomes in plymouth and never gave up their belief that big mike had bad burled his hia savings in some wild spot spat mr shilds and hla his dog spent many days searching for the burled buried trea treasure trove in 1868 the shilds were known to have suddenly come into possession of considerable money y 1 in imme my nim my feel way I 1 disposing sp fl g or of their hair humid humble home they journeyed back to their childhood home near El hagera town me md they only there a year or two when they again came west settling at marshall III HI where mr shilds was killed in a runaway newsy accident and the eldest son samuel ad met ill his death while olal railroading out ot of terre haute ind the daughter fannie made an unhappy marriage and mom boon died lt of f a broken heart thou then in the lute late seventies the younger son an merritt who had gone to milre railroading admi in ill kensas waa bent it he home a corpse in 1802 un the mother tile then I 1 past eighty wrote ply plymouth auth friends friend of 0 tile the sea sad ending of her ores once happy family and how they were oil all then quietly adeep bleep ing in the tha effingham Effing bam cemetery whole where she he emu boon eap exp expected so led to follow them with these bad and events still treah fresh in hla his memory mr all lawton 1 in greatly worried over his him tied find nis TV e know the some same metal 1 Is time after time ell ed reat moped and thus main arins trins it its a perpetual youth what assurance have L I 1 uld bald mr me lawton that some mom e of the these s a gold burled pieces that have bc been n burled in this teapot for over halt half a ventur century were wen not net lit at one time worn wen in hi rings ringa by cleopatra op ire or used in ID the golden torta targets of t solomon simon or that some of these silver pieces did not form farm part of a pirates pirate booty train from a scuttled ld galleon I 1 of the spanish main for far might gm I 1 know knew it was current money an in ielne I 1 and B babylon bylon perhaps borne anne ot of it I 1 la one of th the pieces paid by abraham to the children of heth lor for the double care that looked to tc wards mature mamre or one me of the pi pieces re for far which judas be grayd tile the master meet the th gospel tells na as that before judas Is carlot wool went out to destroy himself in his great remorse a it at h him having im be betrayed eyed innocent blood he be cast down the thirty pieces of silver before the chief priests these theme clems were shekel of the coinage of simon imon the high priest which Ant lochtu authorized th I 1 d III him to issue lorl th they b bore the pot or inane and the flowering rod red of ancer aaron and be to who whom they we were given it knew that they were the prim price of blood ind and was waa afraid and great tribulation card to him that bought and sold said with alth ilia th money of judas he how do I 1 know continued cautioned mr MI lawton that the sad ending of the shilds family waa I 1 not net caused it by them finding a perri portion of this hidden iture iton freaa containing more or less of the ill all ver originally nall in the thirty pieces paid to judas how bow do I 1 I 1 know that a some of this that I 1 have does dew not but metal contain more a of tt late figures algen from W washington bt gt show baw that the united ad states 1 in 1922 PI produced rene ounces or 01 about 20 per rent cent of the silver milver on output of the mines of the world but in 1860 our cal share of the world a production we was only ounces cance or a traction fraction of I 1 per CL cent so that previous to in 1880 practically all our silver money wait wai coined from bilter brought from othet otheal countries with all these facts am staring rl all him 1 in the face mr air lawton a most loyal american citizen tracing hla his ances tors rare back to new england in 1680 save he will take no chances by retaining these old coins came 1 in his him posada pa an afon nor will he pass them off here hen in the peaceful united states but after they have been on display at ona am of the local banks he intends sending bending them to the denver mint with the re quest that they send emd him their equivalent in good clean claim american mined metal money they can and macoln these theme etain tainted ted pieces tt if such much they anav Is be 1 tire into money they ars am or occasionally 1 I 1 y coining tor for old mexico sad and some a of the south Arne american republics that are am always at war and apparently never happy rely only when la in trouble |