Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-31
LOST CHILDREN.
Parents Wanted for a Lad Found In MadI.
son. Ind, at the Close Of the War---A
Widow In Search Of Her Child Lost
During the War.

We have received the following letter
from Mr.. Morehead, of New Orleans,
with a request to publish the same, a re-
quest which we c~heerfully comply with,
in the hope that it may prove of aid to the
distressed mother:
New ORLEANS, July q, 1870.
Editors Appeal; There Is a widow lady
named Simpson, boarding at I73 Girod
street, in this city, who lost her little son
during the war, and has never beer able
to learn his fate. He was about min
years old when he left and would be
eighteen years old now. The last
time she ave heard of him
was in a POSTSCRIPT TO a letter from one
j. w. C%onnell, of Memphis, Tennessee,
dated at Corinth, Mississippi, April IS.
1862. The postscript is as follows:
Your little son has been
with the army about five weeks. He is
remarkably intelligent and amiable, in
good health, and is a pet with us boys.
His morals seem not yet corrupted.
Respectfully, ETC.,
j.. w. CONNELL."
The boys name is Walter C. Hearth.
being q son by a former marriage), and
his mother thinks that he left New Or
leans with the Sixteenth Louisiana regi-
ment. Ia the letter TO which the above
postscript was appended, Mr.. Connell
writes that ne is on General Hardee's
'NoAA NAA Nhne Tx Ia ID lis DOLs LuhL ~
the battle of Shiloh he 1.-THE lad) captured
a sederal, etc, etc. Mrs. Simpson says
that she has written a number oftimes to
General Hardee, but has never received
an answer
The way in which I came to find out
these facts is in connection with another
lost child (see notice below. 1 put the
inclosed notice in the Times yesterday,
and Mrs. Bigney (wife of the EDITOR sent
tho paper to Mrs. Simpson, and that
lady called on me, and told me the above
story. She Is a most estimable lady from
all L can learn, and / beg you to publish
this, in the hopes that it may meet the
eye of Mr.. Cornell, General Hardee, or
some one who knows something about
this "only son of a widow" ANY infOr-
nation should be addressed TO Mrs.
Elizabeth N. Simpson, New Orleans.
The inclosed communication from the
Times may lead to restoring a lost child
to the arms of its parents; will you be
kind enough to copy it and call attention
to it2 Yours, ETC.,
w. MORELAND,
No. I73 Girod street.
The following is the Enclosure spoken
of in Mr.. Moreland's letter:
To The editor Of the Nel0 Orleans Times:
About the close of the late war my
brother, Geo. w. Moreland, found a
small boy some four to six years old in
the city OF MauISOn, ina. lie nad been
brought there by the Federal army and
left with some parties, or he got him
direct from the army stationed there; 1 |
nj say which. The boy Is of delicate
frame, light hair, grey or blue ewes, fair
complexion, no peculiar marks about his
person, and goes by the name of Willie.
l have seen him at my brothers. house a
number of times and conversed with him.
He told me that he thought he had been
raised in a city, they were his only inn
~presSions. He is a very interest
ing little fellow, and desires much to End
his parents if living. 1 thiuk he is be-
tween ten and twelve years old. He sup
posed that in the evacuation of some of
the Southern cities during the war he had
accidentally strayed into the Federal
lines, and had been taken to Madison. l
write this in the hope that it may reach
the eye of the child's parents or some re-
lative. For full particulars address aline
to George W. MOreland, Milton, Trimble
county. Kentucky, or to the undersigned,
at New Orleans, La. All Southern papers
please copy. w. MORELAND,
I73 GiraOd street.