Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-06-15
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The Bucyrus Jou,mat relates the follow
ing: H''i.'-' '' ,sf.-u s7i''s
There has been thousand stories writ
ten, and tales told Of lovers finding lovers.
husbands discovering wives, and brothers
encountering sisters, after years Of separa-
ton, so there will be nothing particularly
interesting to our readers in the following
circumstance, unless it derives interest
from the fact, that it is strictly true, and
that many OF them know the parties. We
do not Of course give real names. Q 't'f
Fifteen years ago, there resided in
Homer, New York, man named S-----,
who had wife and one child-4a daugh-
ter. When The daughter was five years
Old, the mother Siied, and Gre father ms
consolable at the loss, determined to leave
the scene of his afflictlons. He sold his
property, converted his whole effects Into
ready money, and confding his daughter
to the charge Of friend left the country.
For ten long years he was absent. In
that time lie had visited all parts of the
globe. A restless, rowing disposition had
seized him, and remaining in one spot
was impossible. Asia, Africa, Europe
were traverscd; the burning sons of the
Tropic scorched his brow and the icy
blasts of the Arctic kissed his cheek. He
delighted in adventure, and the wilder
the excursion and the more danger that
accompanied it the more it pleased him.
lie never oorresponded with his friends
at home and all that time lie had heard
no tidings from them.
Finally, he tired Of adventure and
turned his face home ward. He came, but
alsa! a new and terrible fate awaited him.
The friend to whom he had con6ded his
child had died-his wife alter his death
had placed the child in other hands, they
had moved westward and died, and the
child was lost sight Of entirely. No clue
to guide the distressed parent could b
obtained. He had no hope of being abb
to recognize her. tor ten years had clap
since be had seem her, and in that time
she had glown from child to Il woman
and there were but two marks by which he
could identify her-while child an aA
had fallen and cut off the little too of hel
right foot, and on another occasion she
had been severely sca.dcd on the ligh
arm near the shoulder. He made all tn,
search possible but was finally forced t.
give it up, and mourned his child as ire
coverably lost. He finally settled near Bu
cyrus, and married again.
About six weeks ago. he happened t,
pass by the room in his house occupied
by servant girl who had resided will
hun for nearly TWO years, at a time wle,
she was about TO retire, and the door being
open, he SAW her foot. lie merely glanced
AT it, and happened TO notice that the lia
toe of the right .fdo' wos missing. II
thought nothing of it at Il time, butafie
retiring, the idea struck him that it Nigh
be tho daughter he had searched for S
long. AT first he dismissed the though
as improbable, but it still forced ilse
upon him, Until finally he requested hi
wife to 40 to the room and ascertai
whether there wns or not, marks OF
scald upon her right arm. Sho went, an
10 his immense delight reported that tn
mark was there. The poor man was 6
positive of her indentity, that the girl wa
awakened, and in the middle of the ne!
was questioned as to her origin.
4 She could only tell them that she di
not know her parents, that her Garlic:
recollSctions were that she had lived some
where in the East with Il family name
q (naming the family she had bee
, left with by tho woman originally er
q trusted with her, that at their death 81
a was taken charge Of by the overseers
tho poor, a place provided for her, thi
she had come to Bucyrus with famil.
# and had supported herself by doing hous'
;. work since.
This tailed so nearly with the alread
@ ascertained facts in the case, that the ne;
! day the father started East with her, al
). visiting the different points she had uame,
Il ascerlaned to his great joy, that she was
o truth his daughter.
a She is an extremely beautiful girl,
% great natural intelligence, and though t
r. tally uneducated, is still interesting.
, She is now at Granville, o., recelvll
n an education to fit her for the new state
- she has assumed her for life.
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