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7 de abr. de 2020 · Some time after burying the barrels, Wages was killed by a man named James Harvey over an unrelated matter. Copeland later shot Harvey for revenge—that murder is what ultimately led to his execution—but during the gunfight, he lost his map to the Catahoula loot, and could never again locate it. That gunfight was in 1848.
Copeland detailed how his clan had buried some $30,000 in gold in a swamp near Mobile and later reburied the treasure in the Catahoula Swamp of Hancock County, Mississippi. Rumors have circulated for decades of Copeland gold caches, still unclaimed, hidden around the shores of the Gulf of Mexico .
27 de nov. de 2021 · According to James Copeland before he was executed he said that he and his clan buried $30,000 in gold in a swamp near Mobile, Alabama and they reburied the gold which was in barrels in the Catahoula swamp in Hancock County Mississippi. Treasure hunters have been searching for this treasure up and down the Gulf Coast for years now ...
14 de dic. de 2022 · The 19th-century American outlaw James Copeland and his gang were well known throughout the coastal states, from Texas to Florida; although, a majority of their crimes took place in southern Mississippi and Alabama.
From the late 1830s through the 1850s outlaw James Copeland and his clan terrorized settlers on the frontiers of southern Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Consequently, a tremendous crowd gathered on the banks of the Leaf River just outside the town of Augusta in Perry County on 30 October 1857 to witness his hanging for murder. […]
30 de oct. de 2016 · A legend of $30,000 in gold that the squad claimed to have buried in Catahoula Swamp still circulates in Mississippi — spur to thus-far frustrated treasure hunters down to the present day.
17 de sept. de 2015 · Janet Smith of Lucedale will present a Powerpoint slide show and lecture on the infamous 19 th century outlaw James Copeland on Tuesday, Sept. 23, at the monthly meeting of the Jackson County Historical and Genealogical Society.
