A wallet purchased in a Fredericksburg shop has recently been reunited with
the descendants of its original owner via a circuitous route through
California. Reddit user "random_treasures" purchased the wallet containing
receipts and CSA currency previously owned by John Coleman, a Lunenburg
County CSA purchasing agent and prominent lawyer. Posting images of the
purchase online, the community was able to recreate a family tree which
provided enough information to allow random_treasures to track a living
descendant and ship the wallet to the family anonymously.

Details here;

http://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/197w9s/tldr_i_found_an_150_year_old_wallet_belonging_to

Follow up with local news stories of the delivery day here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/19eeuq/update_re_civil_war_wallet_of_john_lewis_coleman/


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Keith Kirkland

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