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From: Delorise Sexton <>
Subject: Yokum Dollar
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 07:06:19 -0700

Hello,

Those of you that believe that the Yokum Dollar is a hoax is wrong,
because , as a kid , around 7 or 8 years old, i have seen the dollar,
and wanted it. There were ten of them made, and they were given to
family members, and "Red" Oscar Manning Yokum had one of them. My
grandfathers sister, Annie Yokum had married "Red", and at the time
they lived in Ringling, Oklahoma, Jefferson Co. "Red". also had a half
of a gold bar, that he had melted down into the bar, and gave my
grandfather half of the bar he had made, and told him there was more
where that came from if my grandfather would help him, my grandfather
refused to help "Red", but kept the half of the gold bar anyway, so
my grandfather, bought Cotton, corn, and castor bean seeds, for his
next farmong crops. as myself two brothers and sister use to have to
hoe the johnston grass out of the fields and thin the cotton, then come
fall, we had to help gather in the crops. I have no idea of where "Red"
found the gold, but I do remember the Yokum Dollar, as he had just
gotten it, and the mine is still there in Missouri, around the Table
Rock area, near Branson. Yes, they give out books or a person can buy a
book on the Yokum Dollar, but it is no myth, at the Silver Dollar
City. As for graves in the Yokum cemetary, there are two graves, a
person just have to know where to look for them.

Delorise

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