San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-25
uome OF a Young Man After
Rs'"T1 twenty Years Residence with
i" The Indians.
Chicago Hines.

Chicago 1imes.
wxoSA, Mimi, May 1.-The history
WI;Ocniar case, one which might, il
OF hrase were not too hackneyeI, be
the 90 demonstrate that truth ia
sau nasr than fiction" has just come
s s.n nossession of the Times CORE.
INTO liant pt In the quiet little village OF
ITharles. in the western end OF this
Oh ~ there resides lady named Mrs.
Gouh' Barber. She has been married
! h9Sa Her first husband was named
t T"mn and was one of the brave boys
Ca, Ii,e who faced the music of rebel
IL a,;llery, and who gave up their lives
mSt the Union might live at the battle
IliA p;ttsburg Landing. His felict then
o. o. with several small children, on
.hs Bic Wolf river, Waupac. county,
WISCONSIN,. In 1864 one OF her chill
,,an named Orion Morell Camp, about
saur wears of age at that time, mysteri-
i nu.lv disappeared. He was last seen
S SS' lis mother playing on the river
hank, and his little cap being found
soating in the stream, it was generally
inmmosed he had been drowned. A
sari search and drdgging of the
r;vsr failed to discover his body or any
trrtber trace of him. His mother did
not for a time accept the drowning
theory, hope clinging to her, as it
only will to mother, thatat some time
The missing darling would turn up. In
the neighborhood of her residence
wore camped rowing band of Potta-
watomie Indians, the chief of whom,
Nassana, had often tried to barter with
her for the boy, he having taken a
areat liking to him. Mrs. Camp be-
iieyed her boy had been spirited away,
Init no evidence, could be procured to
fasten the guilt upon the Indians. The
hand was traced and their camp
searched, and the whole country ada
cent yainly secured in the hopes of dis
covering some trace of the boy. At
last even the mothers patience and
hopes died, and she settled down to
the belief that her boy was dead. She
married again, and with her husband
removed to this country. Her other
children grew up about her, became
men and women, and settled down in
homes of their own. One of these,
James w. Camp, located at Royalton,
Wis. He was at work in one of the
mills there q few days since when q
rowing band of Indians camped in the
vicinity, and among the number Mr..
Camp noticed one whose white skin
clearly betokened that he did not be-
long to the tribe, although his garb was
of the Indian fashion. Mr.. Camp be-
came interested in him, found that he
could speak English clearly, and learned
in conversation with him that he was
aware that he had been stolen from his
white parents when small. He had, to
his own impulse, made frequent inqui-
ries concerning the whereabouts of his
parents, but all efforts in that respect
had been fruitless. He could remem-
Der but very few incidents of his youth
previous to being so unceremoniously
adopted by the Indians, but he could
recollect that his parents called him
Morell. Such was the name of Mr..
Camps lost brother, and the conviction
flashed upon him that at last the lost
had been found. Two scars on the per-
son of the newly-found brother estab-
lished chain of evidence which put
the question of his identity entirely
beyond doubt. His mother was at once
notified, and, as might be expected,
sped to him by the next train. The
young man found it hard to break away
from the life which he had led so long
and the habits which he had formed,
but the better promptings of his heart
and the yearnings of love for the being
who bore him weighed greater in the
balance and he now begins anew exist
ence among the surroundings of civil
lied life, the stay and support OF a
fond mother in whose heart during all
these eighteen years there has ever
been a niche sacred to his name and
memory. ... . g.