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Treasure of the Heart: WWI Dog Tag Returned to Soldier's Kaufman County Family

The round hunk of aluminum was forgotten, left to rust and gather dirt nearly a foot underground in Murchison.

Nearly a century after it was abandoned, George Middleton, an amateur treasure hunter, found it with a metal detector under a shade tree. That discovery sparked another hunt — to track down Pvt. Elmer Jordan’s family and return the dog tag.

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