The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-06-06
A LONG LOST SON.
Return Home of q Young Man
After Twenty Years Resi-
dence With the Indians.

dence With the Indians.
The history of a singular case, one
which might. if thaphrase were not too
hackneyed, be said to demonstrate
that truth is stranger than fiction,
has just come into the possession OF
The Chicago Times's Winona, Mimi,
correspondent. In the quiet little vii
lage of St. Charles there resides a lady
named Mrs. Ruth A. Barber. She
has been married twice. Her irst
husband was named Camp, and was
one of the brave boys in blue who
braved the music of rebel artillery and
gave up their lives that the union
might live, at the battle of Pittsburg
Landing. His relict then lived, with
several small children, on the Big
Wolf river. Wampaca county, Wis
consin. In 1864 one of her children,
named Orion Morrell Camp. mysferi-
ously disappeared. He was last seen
by his mother playing on the river
bank, and his little cap being found
floating in the stream. it was general
lv supposed he had been drowned.
A persistent search and dragging OF
the river tailed to discover his body
or any further trace of him. His
mother did not, for long time, accept
the drowning theory, hope clinging
to her, as il only will to mother, that
at some time the missing darling
would turn up. In the Deighborhood
of her residence were camped a rowing
band of Pottawatomie Indians, the
chief of whom, Nassana, had often
tried to barter with her for the boy,
he having taken great liking for
him. Mrs. Camp believed her boy
had been spirited away, but no evil
dence could be procured to fasten the
guilt upon the Indians. The band
was traced and their camp searched,
and the whole country for miles
around vainly secured in the hopes
of discovering 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 h9s-
band removed to this county. Her
other children grew up about her. be-
came 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 few days since
when rowing band of Indians camped
in the vicinity. and among the num-
Der Mr.. Camp noticed one whose skin
clearly betokened that he did not be-
long to the tribe, although his garb
was of the Indian fashion.
Mr.. Camp, became interested in him,
found he could speak English clearly,
and learned in conversation with him
that he was aware that he had been
stolen from white parents when small.
He had, of his own impulse, made fire.
quent inquiries concerning the where
abouts of his parents, but all efforts in
that respect had been fruitless. DE
could remember but very few incidents
of his youth previous to being so I'M
tremendously adopted by the Indians,
but he could recollect that his parents
called him Morrell. Such was the
name of Mr.. Camps lost brother, and
the conviction flashed upon him that
the lost had been found. Two scars
on the person of the newly found
brother established a 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 he had led
so long, and the habits which he had
formed, but the better prompting OF
his heart and the warnings of love for
the being who bore him weighed great
er in the balance, and he now begins
a new existence among the surround
ings of civilized life-the stay and
support of a fond mother in whose
heart all these eighteen years there has
ever been a niche sacred to his name
and memory.