William Stone Ranch Fortune Cache — Maverick County

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William Stone Ranch Fortune Cache — Maverick County

Lost Treasure TX • Maverick County County
Description
Maverick County legend of Judge William Stone's unrecovered ranch fortune — when the county's wealthiest Reconstruction-era landowner died in 1880 owning 100,000 acres and 30,000 sheep.
Historical Notes
Maverick County judge William Stone moved his family to San Miguel during the violent Reconstruction period dominated by John King Fisher. Upon Stone's death on January 23, 1880, he owned roughly 100,000 acres, 30,000 head of sheep, and extensive personal property — considered one of the wealthiest men in the county. Ranch-elite folklore sometimes imagines specie buried when frontier judges and stockmen feared outlaw courts and Indian raids. The San Miguel ranch of Refugio and Rita Alderete de San Miguel (established 1853) was a landmark between Fort Duncan and Fort Clark along the military road. Coordinates approximate the San Miguel / northeastern Maverick County ranch country eight miles northeast of Eagle Pass near Deadman's Hill tradition.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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