Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-10-13
A Strange Story.

A special dispatch from Sharon, Pa.
says: Eddie Seaburn returned home
this afternoon. Thirty days S nee his
funeral sermon was preached by Rev.
Mr.. McMasters at his fathers house i'm
this city. Eddie is about sixteen years
old and formerly worked in Kimberly &
Co.'S mill here. About the beginning
of the strike he disappeared from home
Nine weeks later his father, Samuel
Seaburn, also a workman at the mill.
put an advertisement in paper setting
fo1th that the boy had been enticed
away by a one armed tramp, and asking
information of his whe eabouts, adding
that he could readily be identified by a
scar on his forehead partly hidden by
2 an account was published of the re-
turn home of boy to his home in Bris-
tol, near Philadelphia. This boy had
strayed away. His father heard that a
boy had been killed by the cars at John
ston, had the remains exhumed. identi-
fed them as those of his son, took them
home to Bristol and buried them. The
boy subsequently returned home alive
and well. Seeing the story in print, Mr..
Seaburn wrote to Bristol, and finally
went there on August IL. He had the
body disinterred and identified it posi-
lively as that of his son Eddie. 1t was
much decomposed, the features being
entirely unrecognizable, but the
scared mark on the arm where it had
been touched with hot iron in the mill,
and the scar on the head which had been
made by horses hoof, were to be seen
quite piainly. The teeth also were the
same as the Seaburn boy, the upper
front teeth being peculiar protruding
ones, and lower tooth had q small
piece broken from it. The father felt
greatly relieved that he knew his sons
fate. The remains were reinforced at
Bristol. The name was changed on the
grave-stone, and Rev. Mr.. McMasters,
of the United Presbyterians here, held
memorial services On Au ust 20. This
afternoon about four o clock Eddie Sea-
burn, as large as life. but tribe shah
by from much travel ng under difficult
ties, jumped off a freight train here and
reached out his hand to the first boy
acquaintance he knew. The boy stared
at him and ran off to the other bows
yelling: Here Ed Seaburn that got
killed by the cars.'' A crowd of young
OWLS oehOlCo dIOuuu ulIl I'D tHc
Der of hundred, some arguing that
there was something crooked about this
temperance. As the ma ority seemed
TO regard his resurrection as an outrage
on their feelings, the boy at last began
to cry, and said he would go away again
on the next train. Meanwhile, one
of the boys had run to tell the news to
the parents of the lost boy. The father
came pushing through the crowd, his
eyes glistening as he caught sight Of
his SON. He could not be sure until he
caught the boy in his arms. Then be
almost lost his senses with jov, and
danced about, hugging the prodigal to
his breast, until'suddenly, remembering
his wife. he dragged him of home, and
there were soon two pairs of arms
around him instead of one. The boy
explains that he was wandering about
from place to place till he arrived at
Sharon. But he is here, and the grave
stone in the Bristol church-yard will
have to be marked Unknown again.,
--Pats6urgh (Pa.) Special to Chicago
Times. 81