KGC clues found with John Murrell, put on your thinking caps!!!!!

This is fun. I gave the lock to my dad when they took my daughter for Christmas vacation. It was so rusty that I thought it would crumble if I tried to clean it but I was wrong. Dad put it on a bench grinder with a wire wheel and it cleaned up very well. It is older than I thought and made by Yale and Towne who made modern locks in 1861. I have a lock collector book being ordered by my local library and I hope it will give me a exact date. The lock was buried exactly in between the waterfalls. Last Tuesday I went hunting and found a cotten scale sticking out of the ground. It had horseshoe magnets on it that easily made my compass spin. It also had a wood burning stove door under it. The cotten scale pointed directly toward the lock from about 300 yards away. My Dad is so excited about the lock he has purchased a metal detector and is bringing my daughter home early so he can go hunting with me. I also bought a 10 inch coil for my detector. It seems to double the distance it can detect but I have only tried it in my house.

On a KGC symbol I saw recently it had a marking of "R" over 61, at first it didn't make since but now it does. "R" is the 18th letter in the alphabit, and the 61, it was inside of a pyrmid shape... Could it be 1861, that lock could be a big clue......

This is fun. I gave the lock to my dad when they took my daughter for Christmas vacation. It was so rusty that I thought it would crumble if I tried to clean it but I was wrong. Dad put it on a bench grinder with a wire wheel and it cleaned up very well. It is older than I thought and made by Yale and Towne who made modern locks in 1861. I have a lock collector book being ordered by my local library and I hope it will give me a exact date. The lock was buried exactly in between the waterfalls. Last Tuesday I went hunting and found a cotten scale sticking out of the ground. It had horseshoe magnets on it that easily made my compass spin. It also had a wood burning stove door under it. The cotten scale pointed directly toward the lock from about 300 yards away. My Dad is so excited about the lock he has purchased a metal detector and is bringing my daughter home early so he can go hunting with me. I also bought a 10 inch coil for my detector. It seems to double the distance it can detect but I have only tried it in my house.

On a KGC symbol I saw recently it had a marking of "R" over 61, at first it didn't make since but now it does. "R" is the 18th letter in the alphabit, and the 61, it was inside of a pyrmid shape... Could it be 1861, that lock could be a big clue......

I also read on here recently that someone found a rock with a "Y" and a "T" on it..Could this be the Yale and Towne Lock you have

Texas History:

By the trems of the 1819 Transcontinental Treaty, the United States had given up claims to Spanish lands south of the forty-second parallel. Nevertheless, within a few years Americans began to enter the region (Republic of Texas 1836-1845). Texas for over 10 years Texas was its own country, the frist time they asked to enter the union they were rejected because of the state was, at that time, a slave stated and the union did not want to upset the delicant balance of free and free and slave states.

In 1845 the United States annexes Texas; 1846 the United States declares war on Mexico.