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; over it until the Indians
could come home to claim
what was theirs.
; The tunnel was carved
• through 200 feet of solid rock
straight back into the side of
a steep hill, near some place
where the white men would
. never settle. Off the sides of
the tunnel, small vaults held
the individual treasures of
the Indians. Stone doors
fitted exactly to hide them. A
deadfall triggered by a
I sliver of stone guarded the
; entrance.
■ Finally, in 1838, removal to
Oklahoma was certain. Far
• into the night, they brought
their gold to be “left in the
care of a white man whose
„ heart was filled with com
• passion and pity for their
great misfortune.”
And Wade recounts at
igreat length the story of
Humming Bird who survived
the march to Oklahoma and
•who came back in the 1840 s.
He and Scudder are said to
have waited until late at
night and then went down to
the treasure tunnel to re
cover Humming Bird’s for
tune and no other.
• Foolishness, says County
Historian Don Shadbum. If
Jacob Scudder had known
where the Indian gold was,
he would have done like any
other white man and taken it
for himself.
And Scudder was not that
popular among the Chero
kees, Shadbum contends.
The Cherokees complained
long and loud to the govern
ment about the treatment
they received from the
whites. Storekeeper Scudder
is mentioned. He drove a
hard bargain.
Scudder was a wealthy
man, Shadbum said. But,
correspondence with Scud
der’s relatives in Oklahoma
revealed Scudder invested in
Confederate money during
the War Between the States
and lost everything. Wade
says Scudder’s grandsons
worked the plantation into
the 1880 s, but fell deeper and
deeper in debt and even
tually lost it.
After the Removal of 1838,
Scudder fell from public
sight. By 1860, he was over 70
and imported from Italy two
large marble vaults for the
cemetery at Diana’s Chapel.
Smaller marble coffins
came from the Tate Marble
Co. in Lumpkin County.
During the Civil War,
Scudder hid his wealth,
Wade wrote, but the Chero
kee cryptic symbols he car
ved into his own grave stone,
and a nearby toombstone,
could not have pointed the
way to his personal treasure.
The toombstone was for
someone who died in 1868,
after the war was over.
“The presence of the In
dian symbols told the follow
ing:” Wade wrote in his
book. “(1) Jacob Scudder
was a blood brother of the
Cherokees, otherwise, he
would not have known the
secret of decipher and the
art of writing their cryptic
symbols, and (2) Jacob
Scudder had hidden a trea
sure, by the fact that these
cryptic symbols were never
used for any other purpose.”
Wade found further mys
tery in the fact that Scudder
hired someone outside his
family paid him S2OO to
give his grave perpetual
care.
“But the most important
and interesting of all the
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trucks account for only 15
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THE MORTAL REMAINS
...of Jacob or Diana Scudder
Jacob Scudder
things I learned about Jacob
Scudder was that he was
keeper and guardian of some
4,000 pounds of Indian gold
and other valuables, and he
never betrayed the trust of
his Indian friends,” Wade
wrote.
The Cherokees did bury
their gold in Georgia before
they left for Oklahoma.
Some of them came back in
the early days of this century
and dug some of it up.
Until it was moved to the
University of Georgia in
Athens, there was a large
stone on Mount Tabor Road
covered with Cherokee signs
giving directions to a num
ber of caches of gold. In 1932,
some boys found one. In the
resulting law suit, the judge
ruled for the finders. What
they had uncovered was bur
ied treasure; it was theirs by
right of discovery.
So hope springs eternal in
the treasure hunter’s breast,
Shadbum says. In the 19605,
even before Wade’s book
was published, someone van
dalized Jacob Scudder’s
grave. The marble column
and the carved footstones
with his and his wife’s dates
of birth and death on them
disappeared.
In May, some timber
cruisers Stumbled onto the
wilderness that is now Di
ana’s Chapel. A grave had
been opened. Thick marble
slabs and red Georgia clay
were tossed in profusion.
The apparent final resting
place of Jacob Scudder had
been uncovered to the world.
The timber men were re
luctant to say anything, but
finally mentioned what they
had found to the keeper of a
small country store. He re
ported the incident to the
Forsyth County sheriff.
On May 13, Investigator
Michael Johns, a deputy,
and Assistant Coroner
George Ingram were led to
Diana’s Chapel by a local
man who knew the way.
“It looked like it had been
done a pretty good while,”
Johns said. “I have no idea
who did it.”
In the confusion of the
grave, he found a decayed
skull and thigh bone, the
apparent remains of Jacob
and/or Diana Scudder.
Whoever dug into the
Scudder grave went to some
considerable effort, Johns
said. A large marble slab
covered the vault and there
were more smaller slabs un
der that. Johns estimated
the grave had been open
several months before it was
found.
Later, Ingram took a
county work crew back and
restored the Scudder grave
as best he could. The marble
was well cut and fitted, In
gram said. “For its day, it
was as elaborate a grave as
any could have been.” He
said, “It had to have been a
beautiful set-up.”
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