Butts County GaArchives News.....Buried for years October 8 1896
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Jackson Argus – October 8, 1896
On last Monday a certain farmer of Butts brought to the Jackson bank some 
currency and gold, which he had just taken from the ground where he had buried 
it several years ago.  There were several ten dollar notes among the bills 
which had been mildewed and moth-eaten.  The money was buried in a snuffbox and 
had been in the ground so long that it is at present hardly passable and will 
have to be sent to Washington for redemption.  Evidently this prudential fellow 
thought better times were coming or that he would ever have never brought forth 
this precious stuff from its hiding place.

The gentleman would not tell how long the money had been buried.   One of the 
ten-dollar notes bore the date of the series of 1880, hence it was buried since 
that time.   But it has been brought to daylight again and is now in possession 
of the bank doing duty as other money, but will in the course of a few days be 
returned to Washington from whence it came and new notes placed in circulation 
instead of this almost decomposed currency



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