{"id":2672,"date":"2013-01-14T16:17:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T16:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2013-01-14T16:23:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T16:23:12","slug":"you-cant-take-it-with-you-nelson-a-brucker-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/you-cant-take-it-with-you-nelson-a-brucker-did.html","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You Can\u2019t Take It with You\u2019? Nelson A. Brucker Did"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve all heard that saying before. Conventional wisdom tells us: \u201cyou can\u2019t take it with you when you go.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Nelson A. Brucker of Deadwood, South Dakota, did. He made arrangements before he died to have his money buried with him in an unmarked grave \u201cin a secluded spot in the hills near his cabin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brucker had no wife or children to leave his money to, and felt that his relatives were \u201cso neglectful and unkind\u201d that he didn\u2019t want to leave his life\u2019s savings to them. As for friends, the old miner once remarked: \u201cI have no friends who have done anything for me to justify my giving them what little money I have.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hopefully he has a genealogist cousin today who isn\u2019t neglecting him and has made sure to document Brucker\u2019s life in their family history.<\/p>\n

Hmm\u2026I wonder if anyone ever found that unmarked grave and the money.<\/p>\n

\"Money<\/a>
Aberdeen American (Aberdeen, South Dakota), 25 April 1907, page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve all heard that saying before. Conventional wisdom tells us: \u201cyou can\u2019t take it with you when you go.\u201d But Nelson A. Brucker of Deadwood, South Dakota, did. He made arrangements before he died to have his money buried with him in an unmarked grave \u201cin a secluded spot in the hills near his cabin.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[2967,5291,2653,1129,1658,2233,465,2191,5354,5364,2966,2020,27,1084,928,1736,5457],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-brucker","tag-cousin","tag-deadwood","tag-family","tag-family-history-2","tag-family-research","tag-historical-newspapers","tag-history","tag-life","tag-nelson","tag-nelson-a-brucker","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-newspapers","tag-obituaries","tag-sd","tag-south-dakota","tag-wife"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}