Ft. Worth (TX) Star- Telegram, March 6, 1910, p. 6.
WELL DIGGER GERS FORTUNE
Old Man Inherits Share of $20,000,000 Estate
Nashville, Indiana, March 5-Isaac Chitwood, aged 87 years, the oldest well
digger in the United Sates, is to receive $350,000, his share of a
$20,000,000 estate left by his uncle, Benjamin Chitwood, who recently died
in California. The estate left by Chitwood is located in California and
consists of a gold mine and 6,000 acres of land. Isaac has gone to
California to claim his estate.
Isaac Chitwood has dug 11, 590 wells in his time and has been buried alive
in three different ones. When he was 85 years old he was buried in a
70-foot well and the rocks formed an arch over his head that prevented the
dirt from striking him. He was in the well for three days.