The coolest find ever...

[coppercoins]

A week past my uncle and I went to Northern Indiana to pick up nearly 250,000 wheats I had arranged to purchase. Instead of coming straight back home, we decided to spend a couple of days at the old family homestead area near Xenia, Ohio. We stayed with my great uncle and aunt - we had a good time. I had a chance to visit with another great aunt of mine who passed something along to me that has greater value than anything I have received to date. It was a hand written loan agreement signed by -

my great, great grandfather Thomas Delaware Daughtrey and HIS dad, my great, great, great grandfather, Benjamin Ethelred Daughtrey. Now how cool is that??



The lineage as far as I know it...

Zachary (?) Daughtry (or Doughtry)
Ethelred J. Daughtry
Benjamin E. Daughtrey
Thomas D. Daughtrey
Marvin A. Daughtrey
Charles H. Daughtrey
Roger M. Daughtrey
Charles D. Daughtrey
Michael D. Daughtrey

that's a lot of generations!

BTW, the 1,500 lbs. of cents made it home with us safely.

[Bob P]

Now that'a pretty cool...especially to be able to go back that far. BTW...how much was the loan agreement for? Kinda curious to see what kind of loan agreements and repayment arrangements were generated in those long gone years.

[coppercoins]

It reads:

$191.50 January 13th 1881

For value received one year after date we or either of us promise to pay to the order of Celinda Barnes one hundred ninety one and 50/100 dollars with 8% interest from date until paid.

B. E. Daughtrey
T. D. Daughtrey

On the other side...

Dec 7. 1881
Paid on the within thirtiene Dollars and Seventy Six ($13.76) the interest.

March 13 1882
paid on the within one hundred and seventy dollars
($170.00)

april the 10 1882 paid on the within twenty five and 75 cents
($25.75)

[joeyuk]

That is great. My wife recently finished tracing a line of her familt back to the ship which arrived after the Mayflower. The ship "luck". In her lineage are People who fought in the Revolutionary and civil wars. Some that were " guests of the state " during the census and even some people you would recognize their name. She has everything documented thru birth, marriage, death certificates.

[rollmeupabe]

Chuck, great topic and a really neat find. I have been working on my family tree over the last month and it is a lot of fun. I think people who have the personality type for variety coin collecting are probably a good fit for genealogy. Time consuming, tedious work but a great rush when you find something. I visited with my parents this weekend and found family photos from the early 1900's. Sorry to say, it was even more fun than searching wheaties.

[GarryN]

Very neat find, Chuck. It is interesting how similar the handwriting is from father to son. You are lucky they paid her off, if not you would have been wiped out at 8% interest over 124 years!!