Source: Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
Dated: July 11, 1870
SINKER - DINSMORE - In Fairfield, Ohio, July 3, Dr. E. W. SINKER to Miss Laura A. DINSMORE.

Source: Wisconsin State Journal
Dated: Jun. 4, 1886
HIDDEN WEALTH.
The Indian Legend of the Queer Creek Hills in Ohio.
     [Stoutsville, (O.) Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.]
     Mr. Len Conrad, who was born and grew to manhood in the vicinity of Stoutsville, O., moved to Auglaize County, O.  Mr. Conrad, being an adventurous man and a bold hunter in the woods of Northern Ohio and Southern Michigan, got acquainted with an old Indian by the name of Billy Bristolor "Old Bill," as he was familiarly called.  This Indian stood six feet two inches in his moccasins, and weighted two hundred and sixty pounds, straight as an arrow, and had probably a slight mixture of French blood in his veins.
     "Old Bill" made a trip once every seven years through Auglaize County, stopping with Mr. Conrad, and then passing on through the southwestern part of Fairfield County, and into the Queer Creek hills.
     On his return he would be loaded down with silver and lead.  The Indians were known to come every year, in early days, camp in the vicinity of Stoutsville, then be gone a day or two, when they would return with lead enough to last them a whole year.  These lead mines were supposed to exist in "Rich Hollow," not far from the Boys' Industrial School.  "Old Bill" said he left this part of the country when he was but six years old.  He said it was the custom of the Indians to appoint one of their number to look after the treasures and keep them bid from the whites.  When the one selected became so old that he could not attend to it, a younger one was taken along the last trip and shown the location of these mines.  Hence "Old Bill's" periodical trips.  A man living in the hills, known as the "Queer Creek hills," hauled two loads of treasure for "Old Bill," but love nor money can not induce him to tell where he unloaded it.  Where the Indian got it from, of course he knows not.  The old Indian said the richest lead-mine in the world was in this "Rich Hollow," which we have mentioned, and which is a tributary of Clear creek, which flows through the township of the same name.
     But the strangest part of the story is yet to come.  "Old Bill" told Mr. Conrad while he (Conrad) was living in Auglaize County, that near Stoutsville, and about one mile south of the "Sixteenth" (a school section) were two oak trees standing a few hundred yards apart, and which he (the Indian) had not since since he was six years old.  He told Conrad that in one of the trees was a wooden pin, in the other was a stone and deer's head, and that between or near the trees was plenty of silver.  So accurately had the Indian described the place that Mr. Conrad had no trouble in finding it after his return to Stoutsville.
     But the lands had been divested of timber by Mr. Lewis Creager, the owner, and the trees sawed into lumber by his brother, Mr. Salem Creager, who found in one of the trees the pin, as described by the Indian, and in the other the stone and the deer's head.  The wood had grown over them to the thickness of about six inches.  The log with the pin in it is now in the barn of John Fosnaugh, the stone was thrown away, and the deer's head is in the possession of Mr. L. Conrad, of Stoutsville.
     The trees were on the banks of Salt creek, which is rocky and bluffy.  "Old Bill" made his last trip in October, 1884, having with him a young Indian by the name of Tatman, who was to take the old man's place.  They were accompanied by twenty-seven other Indians and camped near Stoutsville, young Tatman staying with Mr. Conrad.
     They passed down Salt creek to the vicinity of South Bloomingville, and near the "Narrows" of Salt creek.  All his trappings were buried with him, including a valuable "toll-ball" - a ball of some metal or composition by which the Indian located the mineral deposits.  An Indian has kept watch over the grave ever since.
     Mr. Conrad feels confident that he will yet find the treasure.  As the old Indian would tell him no nearer than the trees spoken of, the exact spot is not known.  Taking all these different circumstances together, it seems as if there were no humbug about the hidden treasure.  And considering, too, that the parties are all reliable and truthful men.

Source:  Plain Dealer - Cleveland, Ohio
Dated: July 15, 1892
Thrown From a Buggy.
     Lancaster, July 14 - (Special) - As Charles Nester of this city was out driving this evening his horse turned suddenly, precipitating him on the street railroad track and inflicting a serious cut on the head.  He is still unconscious.