Indian Territory Treasure Hunters Club Club Motto: Dig For Fun, Restore When Done. Calendar of Events

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1 1 April 2016 Indian Territory Treasure Hunters Club Club Motto: Dig For Fun, Restore When Done EARTH DAY Spring Has Sprung April 22nd Are you doing your part to Inside this issue: Finds of the Month 2 Attendance Drawing 3 DUES ARE DUE 3 Have Civil War Ancestors? 3 ITTHC Message Forum 3 Birthdays & Anniversaries 4 Amazon.com 4 Community Service Project 5 Fort Wayne Outing 6-7 Detector Fund Raiser Raffle 8-9 ITTHC National Hunt Flyer Upcoming Events 16 Calendar of Events Monthly Meeting Saturday - April 9th 7:30 p.m. Owasso Community Center 301 S Cedar Street Owasso, OK Board Meeting Thursday - April 21st 6:30 p.m. Corporate Place Bldg E. Skelly Dr. Tulsa, OK North Door ITTHC 45th Annual National Treasure Hunt May Creek County Fairgrounds April Sapulpa, Program OK & Outing If possible an outing will be set up for Sunday Apr 17th details at the meeting. At this point a program has not been scheduled. You will be notified if one does get scheduled. ************************************************************************************* Cookie Volunteers Ken & Linda Fanning Jim Dill Thanks for bringing treats! Club Member Reminder: Time to secure prize donations for our hunt in May!

2 2 I.T.T.H.C. Treasure News Page 2 Check out the find of the month pictures on our web site each month at: Find of the Month March Meeting CATEGORY PLACE NAME DESCRIPTION Valuable Coin 1 Rachel Hayworth 1913-D Type II Buffalo Nickle 2 John Freeman 1903-O Barber Dime 3 Jim Nobles 1911 Barber Quarter Oldest Coin 1 John Freeman 1898 Barber Dime 2 Ronnie Duncan 1905-O Barber Dime 3 Shaun Kucera 1908 V Nickle Oldest Cent 1 John Freeman 1881 Indian Head Cent 2 Mike Green 1888 Indian Head Cent 3 Cody Reese 1889 Indian Head Cent Valuable Cent 1 Bob Cook 1914-S Wheat Cent 2 John Freeman 1922 Wheat Cent 3 (tie) 3 (tie) Jim Nobles Curtis Wheeler 1922-D Wheat Cent 1910-S Wheat Cent Relic 1 John Freeman Real Estate Token 2 Jim Nobles Grand Prize Beer Key Fob 3 Ronnie Duncan Piano Token Jewelry 1 Shaun Kucera 10K Gold 194_ Class Ring 2 Howie Rosser 18K Gold Bracelet 3 Cody Reese Sterling Silver Bracelet Military Relic 1 Cody Reese Smith Carbine Bullet 2 John Freeman 44 cal Colt Pistol Bullet 3 (tie) 3 (tie) John Hamilton Greg Wicks Display 1 John Freeman 2 Bob Cook 3 Howie Rosser Display Drawing Winner: J.J. Freeman Pistol Ball Fired Pistol Ball Remember to bring your finds each month to enter!

3 3 I.T.T.H.C. Treasure News Page 3 Attendance Drawing Attendance Drawing March 12, 2016 Meeting Winner Jim & Jeanie Webb Names drawn before the winner Jack & Norma Jean Mullen Bill Plese Jimmy & Jo Gail Wallis You should have been there - you would have won 10 / $1.00 gold coins. President: Cody Reese Vice President: Roger Eaton Secretary: Remember to pay your dues for this year Only $25/year 2016 Officers Rachel Hayworth Treasurer: Terry Humphries Parliamentarian: John Freeman St. Board: Greg Wicks John Hayworth John Hamilton Jim Nobles Bill Watkins Want to find out if one of your ancestors served in the Civil War? Civil War Soldiers and Sailor System Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System Overview - The Civil War (U.S. National Park Service) ITTHC Message Forum Remember that the ITTHC Message Forum is back up and running for posting finds, announcements, and research information. Here is the link: ITTHC Forum Either click on or highlight and copy the below link and paste to the address line of your browser: webbbs_config.pl

4 4 I.T.T.H.C. Treasure News Page 4 April Birthdays Happy Birthday 06 Gary Young 08 Shirley Cooper 08 Miranda Young 09 Angell Hayworth 13 Chuck Marcum 13 Laynie McWhirt 15 John Ehmen 15 Howie Rosser 16 Tim Adams 20 Ken Fanning 20 Ike McWhirt 21 Sharon Hayworth 21 Alneta Mitchell 21 Lee Wierzchowski 27 Shane Curtsinger 26 Jim Bob Shoulders 28 Charles Bohuslavicky April Anniversaries 11 Lee & Marge Wierzchowski AMAZON.COM A Big Thank You again to all that have been purchasing items from Amazon through the Amazon Associate link on the ITTHC website. With no extra cost to you, you have been putting a good amount in the club's Amazon Associate Account. To find the link just go the the ITTHC Homepage, scroll down and click on the Amazon Associate link. You can also link to Amazon through selections in the ITTHC "Online Book Store". Amazon has things from A to Z for sale. Amazon is not just for books anymore, but you can still get books, even in digital form. And if you are buying online anyway, always check at Amazon for their pricing through the ITTHC link. Amazon will usually have the best price on most items and many will have free shipping. And if you join Amazon Prime you get unlimited FREE Two Day Shipping and One Day Shipping for $3.99 per item on most orders. And there are more benefits to being an Amazon Prime member. Just remember to click to Amazon through the link on the ITTHC Homepage before searching for & purchasing your item and the club will get credit. Again a Big Thank You to all of you that have already purchased through the ITTHC Homepage link to Amazon. Tell all of your friends, relatives, and fellow treasure hunters around the country. Below is what the Amazon Associate link looks like and where it is located on the ITTHC Homepage: Prime membership is $99.00

5 5 I.T.T.H.C. Treasure News Page 5 Community Service Project For over twelve years, ITTHC has chosen to assist the Broken Arrow Neighbors Association (BAN) as the focus of our club s community service project. BAN is a nonprofit organization and is celebrating its 32 nd year of serving the needs of less fortunate citizens in our local community. To read more about BAN, check out their website at: Again this year, we will continue to support BAN with the following two main projects: Back-to-School and Christmas. In addition, throughout the year, we will continue to collect items from BAN s Needs List to help stock their pantries and supplies. There is always a high demand for items such as canned goods, boxed food items, and toiletries. We will be happy to deliver items club members bring to any of our meetings and/or outings. Check out the Current Needs List in this month s newsletter and try to contribute if you can. Thank you for helping this very worthy cause! Jean Dick and Marge Wierzchowski

6 6 I.T.T.H.C. Treasure News Page 6 Action Near Old Fort Wayne, Cherokee Nation The ITTHC Saturday, March 19 th was a return to the area where the Action Near Old Fort Wayne took place during the Civil War. The weather was good for this time of year, sunshine with the high near 55, and wind a little strong, 20 to 25 mph. Got a little windburn to go with the sunburn. The ITTHC first started having outings to the Old Fort Wayne (second location of Fort Wayne) area in March 1992 with the idea to try and find the area where the Civil War Action took place. Also detecting the Old Fort Wayne ( ) and the companies of First Dragoons camp that was established during the building of the fort. We started working around the area section by section to locate the battle area. And we started in the wrong direction, East of the fort site. Not too bad, we did find a lot of artifacts that related to the old fort site and the period of the Civil War action. One site found was a regimental camp along a creek branch to the East that turned up quite a few relics. In talking to the landowner s mother in the past she related an incident told to her by her grandmother. Her grandmother remembered as a child during the Civil War that the the Union Army had camp on their property and slaughtered & butchered all of their cattle. The camp to the East was probably that camp. And a side note; the youngest member of the landowner s family is the 8 th generation of the family to live on this property. After 7 to 8 outings we finally got into the area of the Civil War Action which was West of the old fort site on an outing in January The first indication was a quantity of lead case shot which are lead round balls that are suspended in a matrix inside a cannon shell. These shells would have a timed fuse and were set to explode 15 to 20 feet above the enemies lines, very anti-personnel. All of the timed fuses that have been found at the site were Borman time fuses. The area that battle related items; cannon ball fragments, James shell fragments, fuses, case shot, bullet, etcetera, were found in is approximately ¾ of a mile wide and 1½ miles in length. The engagement lasted less than one hour. The Union artillery were using both 12lb. cannon balls with Borman time fuses and the James shells with the impact fuses. Can recall over the years at least 10 to 15 Borman time fuses that were found and even some of the brass nose pieces, called the anvil, from the James shells have been recovered. Gary Carnes finding two of the anvils on one outing. And up until this time the ITTHC has had 15+ outings to the area with as many as 85 members at one outing. For this March 19 th outing we had 21 ITTHC members in attendance. Did not get checked out with all that attended. Judging from what was shown and what was ed there were still probably close to 200 bullets & case shot found this outing. Ranging from pistol balls, Remington.36 cal. pistol bullets (Teardrop), "round ball thingies" which most were case shot, a few shell fragments, and a few Minie bullets of various calibers.

7 7 I.T.T.H.C. Treasure News Page 7 There were several members that found their first Civil War bullet. The best item to show up was a fired Confederate.69 cal. Gardner bullet in good shape found towards the Union line. That bullet is a rare find in the Trans-Mississippi Department area. There have been 3 dropped.69 cal. Gardners found at an outing in the past in the Confederate line. It was an enjoyable day and hope everyone had a good time, see ya at the next one. THANK YOU TERRY FOR THIS NICE WRITE UP.

8 8 I.T.T.H.C. Treasure News Page 8 Detector Fund Raiser Raffle Tickets will be available at the April meeting for the Detector Fund Raiser Raffle The detector this year is a White s MX Sport, retail price $799.95, donated by: Treasure Electronics 2517 S. Memorial Drive Tulsa, OK (800) For a $1.00 donation one ticket is given to the donor and for a $5.00 donation the donor will receive 6 tickets. Again this year we will be running the contest for the top dollar funds raised by club members. There will be prizes for the top sellers. Tickets will be available for check out at the meeting or contact us if you need them mailed or delivered. hunt@itthc.com SEE NEXT PAGE FOR THE WHITES MX SPORT BEING RAFFLED.

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12 12 I.T.T.H.C. Treasure News Page 11 UPCOMING EVENTS April 9: - ITTHC General Meeting - If possible an outing will be set up for Sunday Apr 17th details at the April meeting. At this point a program has not been scheduled. You will be notified if one does get scheduled. April 21: - ITTHC Board Meeting Corporate Place Bldg E. Skelly Dr. Tulsa, OK North Door 6:30 pm April 30-May 1: -Three Forks Treasure Hunters Club 30th National Open Treasure Hunt. and then click on NATIONAL HUNT. May 28-29: - ITTHC 45th Annual National Treasure Hunt - Creek County Fairgrounds.

13 13 The ITTHC Treasure News is published by The Indian Territory Treasure Hunters Club, Inc. P.O. Box Tulsa, OK Editor: Bill Watkins Webmaster: Bob Freeman The general meeting of ITTHC is held the second Saturday of every month at the Owasso Community Center, 301 South Cedar Street, Owasso, OK at 7:30 p.m. VISITORS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME! Membership dues are: $25.00/year Indian Territory Treasure Hunters Club P.O. Box Tulsa, OK We re on the web! FIRST CLASS MAIL