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The huge rock is made of iron and thus far has resisted all attempts to be
pioyed. It is very heavy because it is of iron. But the Charles Kersey
family knows the rock is hollow and very likely it too contains the strange
pink, yellow, and white sand.
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Tommy Kersey (front) scoops out beautiful, fine grained pink, yellow, and
white sand out of the iron rock he has just broken. Behind Kersey is area
.resident Charles Cawthon, who like the Kerseys is mystified by the rocks full
ifif sand.
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Sand Inside Iron Rocks
Strange Rocks Discovered ♦
On Nearby Kersey Farm
By Bobby Branch
and Joe Hiett
“Maybe it was a
meteorite,’" speculated
Tommy Kersey. His father
Charles responded, “I don’t
think it was a meteor, but it
sure looks like terrific
amounts of heat were
present.”
About a half mile from the
Kersey general store in the
south Houston community of
Henderson, on Charlie’s farm
property, lies a six acre fish
pond Although it is good for
“fishin”, more significant is a
generous supply of iron
containing rocks embedded
throughout the pond’s ear
thern dam
The Houston Home Journal
THURS., MAY 22. 1975.
Fat, contented cattle graze
peacefully yards from the
dam, blissfully unaware of the
strange rocks that have begun
to draw speculation. About six
years ago the Kerseys built
the pond and even then were
puzzled by the rocks. Puzzled
because the iron rocks were
h0110w... and were filled with
sand!
Charles Kersey has a
beautiful example of the weird
rock at his store. The rock is
about eight inches in
diameter, with a three inch
iron shell. Inside the shell is
sand- beautiful white, pink,
and yellowish sand.
"I just can’t understand it,”
reflects Wendell Kersey.
“That is sand inside that iron
rock, yet there isn’t anything
but clay- no sand- in the area.
Where did the sand come from
and how did it get in the
rock?”
Charles Kersey adds, “We
burst about 20-25 of those
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things in building that dam.
Every one had sand in it. I was
scared the dam wouldn’t hold
because of all those rocks, but
it does.”
After a pause he says, “I
believe something caused
tremendous heat, and melted
that iron ore around the sand.
What, I don’t know.”
Westfield High science
teacher Earl Marshall was
intrigued by the story, and by
the stone. Last TTiursday,
after hearing of the
hollowness and presence of
sand, Marshall said he had
heard of such a phenomenon,
but could not recall the
scientific name of such rocks.
But being inquisitive by
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nature, Marshall proceeded to
spend about forty-five minutes
running tests on a section of
one of the iron rocks. From the
shelves in his science
classroom, Marshall pulled a
bunsen burner, test tubes, and
several different kinds of
solutions.
Things like potassium
ferrocyanide, sodium sulfide,
nitric acid, ammonium
sulfide, sulfuric acid, am
monium hydroxide, zinc
powder, silver nitrate,
potassium thiocyanate, and
more compounds and
solutions were soon mixed
with the iron scrapings.
Marshall verified the iron
existent in the rock, and ex
postulated that the heat theory
probably was incorrect,
despite the obsidian-like
glassiness of a cropping, He
said the rock did not appear
hard enough to have been
formed under heat.
So the rock, filled with sand,
continues to be a mystery.
Where did it originate? In a
far off world, zooming through
space as a meteor? Or
spewing forth from a long
forgotten volcano? Or???
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Henderson resident Tommy Kersey uses his hammer to break open a sec
tion of the iron rock, located on the bank of the dam on his father Charles’ fish
pond. The rock proved to be hollow and filled with sand, as have many other of
the rocks in the area. Tommy had to be careful of rattlers in the area too.
». ....
This peculiar iron rock was split apart and found to contain sand. Note the
shell-like covering and hollow inside. How the sand got into the rock is a
mystery, since the area is not at all sandy, but rather is “loaded” with clay
strata. Was the rock a meteor, or the result of a volcanic eruption? No one is
sure.