Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-04-02
OUR LOST SUSAN.


We copy the following remarkable and AFFECTING
narrative from the Southern Christian Advocate 70
which journal it was communicates the father of
the child, the Rev. Samuel Lizard, pastor of the
Cumberland (Mehodist Episcopa9 Church, in
Charleston, ). e. On Thursday, 10Th of February,
my little daughter, Susan NJ. NJ. Leard, aged three
years, was playing in the yard, near the house OF
her grandfather and as it no unusual thing for
her to play about the premises in open weather.be,
temporary absence from within the enclosure coca
stoned no alarm. Within twenty minutes of the
time when last seen byone of her aunts. she was
called by some member of the family and to their
great dismay, was not to be found. Immediate
search was made around the yard and lot but all
to no purpose. A little colored girl, of near the
same age with herself, was also missing, and was
seen in company with little Susan, about thirty
yards from the fence when they were last observed
by the family.
Whether the children wandered off voluntarily.
or were taken away by some malicious person, is
shrouded in the most profound mystery. The
grandfather mounted his horse, and made immedi.
ate search in the surrounding woods for some
hours, but without success. Evening was now ap.
preaching, and the family agonised at the prospect
OF the children continuing in the woods through
the darkness and inclemency of the night sum
moned the neighbors to their assistance The
country was secured for some distance around. fires
were lighted up in different directions, and every
possible effort made to attract the chdren's atten-
toni they were neither heard nor seen. The
night rolled heavily onward and the morninp lirIt
only brought the sad intelligence to the hearthrok
en- grandparents, that the children were not found
1t will be remembered that the night of the 18th
Feb was among the most Indictment Of the sea-
son the rain poured in torrents, and the wind was
blowing almost gale. Where the poor little crea-
lures found shelter, what shrubbery protected. or
what stone pillowed their little heads, or how they
were sustained under the mercess peltings of the
ruthless storm, God, their Heavenly Father only
knows. We may be allowed to believe that "The
Angel of the Lord" which encampeth round A.
bout them that fear HIM" delivered them How
much they suffered in their exposed situation must
be left for the day of eternity to reveal. During
the following day, (Saturday,) unceasing search
made, and about dark the body of the little ne
gro was found iteless, but not stiff. She had ap-
parently Just died.
This quickened the energies of the friends and
neighbors, and dihgent search was made during
that night! in the noighborhood of the little negro
but though every bay penetrated, and almost
every log turned OYER still they discovered no signs
of little Susan. Sabbath morning now dawned
but not with its wonted peace and tranquility; all
was goom,and melancholy Between the hours of
ten and eleven in the morning, as u young man.
VIM. Tobias, was searching near bay around
which the underground had formed an almost i'm
penetrable thicket, he observed something move
near the waters edge and going closer to exam
Inc, he heard little voice addressing him thus
"Please take me out of the water. ] want to 90
to grand-pas. want some tea" 1t was the form
and voice of my dear little Susan, which he saw
and heard.
She was lying PROSTATE on the leaves and moss,
one loot IN the waters her bonnet thrown back, and
her clothing completely drenched with the RAIN
The young man thinks it probable that had she not
spoken to him, he would have passed without dis.
covering her, so thick and matted was the shrub
berry around her. The news that she was found
was quickly communicated to the company. and
they bore her off in triumph to the afflicted family,
The scene that followed, upon their seeing her a.
live, after absence of seveniy-tieo hours. without
food or shelter, and the endurance of three DAYS
and nights anxious suspense and solicitude on their
part we will leave to the readers heart to describe
The distance to which she had wandered from her
nome was about three miles.