Carroll County GaArchives News.....In Bed Tick March 14, 1893
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The Weekly Constitution, Atlanta, Ga. March 14, 1893
Five Thousand Dollars of Good Money Was Found in Villa Rica.
Carrollton, Ga., March 5. -- The finding of $5,000 in a feather bedtick has 
caused somewhat of a sensation at Villa Rica.  The Constitution announced the 
death of Mr. J. M. Hamrick, whose home was in Villa Rica, some days ago, and it 
was his money that was found in a bedtick, and what is causing much talk in 
Carroll county.  Mr. Jimmie was about ninety years old when he died, and had 
been a resident of Carroll county for three score years.  He was always very 
economical in the administration of his private affairs, and it has been known 
that he was worth probably $5,000 in all, but since his demise it has turned 
out that he was worth from $12,000 to $15,000 and no one knew it but himself.  
All the years Uncle Jimmie livedi n Carroll county it has been known that he 
saved a small sum of money each year, which he passed to his surplus, but not 
even the Hon. J. M. Hamrick, Jr., his only son, knew that he had over $2,000 in 
money besides his realty.

Mr. Hamrick always had an antipathy to banks and although he always had case on 
hand he never would put his money in a bank until last year.  His son, who knew 
of his father having $2,000 in gold, part of which was buried on the premises, 
persuaded him to deposit it in a bank, and Uncle Jimmie put the same in the 
Atlanta National bank.  It was thought that this was about all the cash the old 
man had until yesterday.  Hon. Jim Hamrick, the deceased man's young wife and 
some of his daughters ripped open a feather bed on the place and took therefrom 
$5,000 in crisp bank notes, all snugly done up in one package.  No one knew 
where this money was nor that he had it.  Uncle Jimmie's young wife knew that 
he had a valuable paper sewed up in the feather bed, which he had forbidden an 
interference with till after his death, and also gave her particular 
instructions not to give information about it.  Mrs. Hamrick thought the paper 
might be her aged husband's will or some other valuable instrument of writing, 
and she guarded the feather bed with an eagle eye during her husband's 
lifetime, and after his burial she imparted the information to Mr. Hamrick's 
only son.  Besides this find other moneys were found, which showed that Uncle 
Jimmie had saved up quite a snug sum.  His first wife died about three years 
ago and he married a second time about two years ago.

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