It's a story that dates back to the Civil War but ties in to the present day, a story about land lost and found.

Robert Taylor Perry is a land surveyor who makes his living by digging into the history of local tracts of land. One day a client contacted him about taking a look at some land that was being foreclosed. The landowner needed the 20-acre property researched and surveyed.

That research led Robert to a document dated September 21, 1860. It was paperwork on a loan for the land originally owned by William Nicholson Sears. Robert was amazed — Sears just so happened to be his great, great, great grandfather.

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