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My great grandfather, James Sharrock (died 1907), was a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. He belonged to the Buckeye Lodge No. 35 in Galion, Ohio. My grandmother had the following ribbon in her possession. Shown are the front and the back (the pin is reversible)(C.O'Hara, 2000):
BENJAMIN SHARROCK ESTATE - Abner Sharrock, adm.
Said administrator asks that he may be allowed as compensation for extra services performed the additional sum of $200.00 for the reasons following.
Accountant says that his brother Findley (sic) & himself discovered and found $1,552.90 in gold coin belonging to said deseased (sic) which had been buried & lost. That they dug in and around an old cabin where deceased once lived on the real estate owned by deceased in his lifetime & that his death that they dug outside & lifted the floor inside & dug over the whole foundation to a depth of from one to two feet. That they dug over & reshoveled the ground a second time & also shoveled & screened the ground a third time. At the first digging they obtained $683.30 in gold coin. After the second digging they obtained $449.60 in gold coin & at the third digging & screening they obtained $420.00 in gold coin.
That while they were digging they were watched by suspicious parties & he was compelled secretly each day to run the risk of taking said gold treasure to the city of Galion (Ohio- C.O.) a distance of over four miles and depositing it in the first National Bank of Galion for safe keeping.
Accountant says that his necessary expenses was $50 dollars in employing safe trusty man to aid and assist him and that the time employed by himself was fifteen days. For these he thinks an extra allowance of $200 dollars to be reasonable.
Accountant further says that in addition to the finding of the gold coin, at the same time and in the same digging he also found and obtained twenty six lbs averdupois and four ounces of old silver coin but so defaced by its lying so long buried in the ground as to render it uncurrent as silver coin & that he has sent it to the United States Mint in Philadelphia as bullion for recoinage and when he receives a return of it from said mint he will place it to the audit of the estate and ask a further allowance on said silver an compensation for extra service performed.
Affirmed & subscribed by said Abner Sharrock before me this 23 day of November 1881
(Abrm Underwood, Justice of the Peace)
(This piece was sent to me by P.Walklet - C.O.)