Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-09-02
WHOLE NO. 1894.
A LIFE ROMANCE.
Recovery by the Parents of Daughter Stolen
Twenty Years Ago.

teresLlDS account OF an lncluent
which lately occurred there. He
says; On the 10th of July, 1854,
Mr.. Timothy Stokin, now of this
place, had little girl Is months old
stolen from him He was then liv.
ing at Merton, Waukesha county.
Mrs. Stokin was in the garden at
The time, picking cueumbers, leaving
the child in the house with older
children. Her husband was some
eighteen miles away from home.
When Mrs. Stokin returned to the
house she asked where little Emma
was, and the children answered 'out
on the flower bed" She called it,
but received no answer, and never
saw the child again until night be-
fore last, when Mr.. Stokin returned
with lady from Red Cedar Falls,
Dunn county. This proved to be
the child who was stolen twenty
years one month two days before.
The girl had been teaching school
during the summer at Red River
Fall. The history of the loss of the
child and her subsequent movements
is interesting.
After the child disappeared the
father aroused the neighborhood, and
a long search was made. He firmly
believed the child had been abducted
and left no stone unturned TO find
her. He tracked two men to Ripon
under the belief that they had the
child, but there he lost track of
them. The father and son entered
the army, the son was killed, the
father returned alone, and the family
removed to Durand, where be has
lived for ten years.
OF the adventures of the child
nothing is known up to her sixth
year. She remembers that at that
age she was living in st. Louis with
a woman which she regarded as her
mother. The woman was taken i'll.
and under the impression that she
would die she confessed to the girl
that she was not her mother; that
she had boon stolen, and that she
(the woman) had been paid TO keep
her. The woman did not die, and
the girl remained with her in st.
Louis until she was IL years old.
At that time Capt. l.. D. Bartlett, of
Hudson, Wis, captain of the steamer
Viola. was in ST. Louis with his wife.
Mrs. Bartlett met the girl, liked her
and made arrangements with the
woman by which the girl passed
into the hands of the Bartletts and
came to Wisconsin to live. About
year ago Capt. Bartlett removed to
Indiana, and Fannie Johnson, as the
school in Dunn county, as mentioned
above.
A few weeks ago Mrs. Nasty, of
this place, visited Cedar Falls and be-
came acquainted with Emma. She
was Immediately struck with the re-
semblance of the girl to the Stokin
family, and knowing the story of
thu lost child, concluded that this
might be her. She acquainted the
Stokin family with her belief, and
Mr.. Stokin at once visited the girl
and after interviewing her felt as
sured she was HE daughter. He
pursuaded her to accompany him
home, and they reached here Thurs
day night. The meeting between
the mother and daughter was affect
ing, and so deep were the mothers
feelings that she swooned away on
seeing her long lost child. All doubt
of the identity of the child is re-
moved The young lady has been
well educated, and is a very interest
ing person. She has been well cared
for, and especially during her resi-
dence in Hudson, where she was uni
versally liked. Her parents are in
moderate circumstances, but are
honest industrious people, and have
the highest respect of the entire
community.
It seems that year or 80 ago the
girl received information from st.
Louis that her parents had been dis
covered, and was urged to visit st.
Louis. but her Hartford friends adj
vised her to wait until references
given were found to BIO genuine.
As no clue TO the parties advising
her to return to St. Louis could be
found, it was concluded that it was
an effort on the part of some ques-
tionable persons to get possession OF
the young lady, and she remained at
Hudson.
Mr.. Stokin, the father, has this
theory in regard to the abduction.
A man named Charles Taylor was a
sutton for the hand of Mrs. Stokin.
Her marriage filled him with rage
and he vowed revenge. He followed
them from Ohio to Wisconsin, and
stole the child.
Day GooDs TRADE.-The New
York Journal Of Commerce, Of Wed
nesday, reports business decidedly
brisker. While not, as q rule, indulg-
ing 10 large purchases of any particu-
lar goods, buyers seem to have taken
hold in earnest of general selection.
Wooden goods excepted, there was an
amount Of activity on Tuesday which
kept every one on their feet and
busy from an early hour till late in
the afternoon. The demand from
the Northwest was eminently salts
factory, and in fact there was scarcely
any backwardness on the part oil
the representatives of any section
except among the visitors from the
REGIONS around Cincinnati, who are as
vet uncertain how far the actual
damage inflicted on the crops should
iudiciousIy be suffered to curtai
their intended operations.
s@ Queen Victoria is past fifty-six
| and for her years she is still q young
looking woman. Her eldest grand
child. the son of the Crown Prince
of Germany, is now sixteen; ant
it is quite possible, considering tn
age at which Royal Princes are mar
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