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I subscribe to Newspapers.com. Highly recommended. (View Post)

You are so right, sorry. I looked at the tree on Ancestry again and see now what apparently happened. John F. Giesey died in 1837. He had a sister Harriett born in 1816 and it shows she died in Atchi… (View Post)

Working on a little more research (I'm a genealogist besides a coin collector). It looks like "Mrs. Dr. Johnson" was Drusilla (Bowman) Johnson, wife of Dr. George H. T. Johnson. She was bor… (View Post)

And one final article, directly related...from the Weekly Champion from Atchison, Kansas, dated 29 Jan 1876 , in the "From Sunday's Daily" column: Oddly, the name of the recipient in the ar… (View Post)

Another interesting article...from The Village Messenger of Fayetteville, TN on 28 Jan 1824. Note the inscription on the coin is similar to the highlighted statement attributed to Jackson. Next time … (View Post)