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7 de abr. de 2020 · In 1921, a story in The Times-Democrat, a New Orleans paper, claimed that “a chest containing several thousand dollars has been found” in “the swamp of Catahoula Creek.”. In 1952, a historian writing in The Picayune-Item newspaper suggested that the gold was still there.
27 de nov. de 2021 · James Copeland’s Hidden Barrels of Gold: $30,000 in gold: Catahoula swamp in Hancock County Mississippi. The Sunken Treasure of Steamboat The Ben Sharrod: $75,000 in gold coins: The east bank of the Mississippi River, about 30 miles south of Natchez, Mississippi. Farmer Zack Goforth’s Buried Wealth: $30,000 in gold coins
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 .
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. […]
Description. Jesse James, John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde—James Copeland (born 1823) was the granddaddy of them all. This is his notorious history as recorded by the sheriff who arrested him in 1857. During the 1830s, '40s, and '50s, Copeland and his gang of outlaws ranged over territory extending from Mobile Bay to Lake ...
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.
14 de oct. de 2022 · No proof, that is, until the Copeland book was published 15 years later. In it, James Copeland described the plan to rob and kill Robert Lott and another man, Tom Sumrall, from the nearby Oloh community. Copeland even named the two killers: Gale Wages and John Harden.
