The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-18
A Romantic Incident.

In the year 1857. young man
named Alfred Peacock, was with
one of the hand-cart companies
then crossing the plains in the di-
rection of Utah. He left the COM
pany in the vicinity of Omaha, and
engaged in various callings until, q
year or two later, he had acquired
some means and was the owner of
Sc veral mule teams.
By this time his parents were on
their way to this country from
| England, and young A fired intended
to intercept them at Omaha, and
come to Utah in their company. He
established himself in business a
few miles from Omaha, and left
word there with some friends that
when the immigration train arrived
at Omaha they were to commun-
icate the fact TO him. This
they failed TO do, and The
young mans parents were at q
! loss to account for his failure in
meeting them, as agreed to. His
mother was nearly frantic with
grief, and would have lefG the com
pany and sought her boy had she not
been restrained. The result was
that the family came to Utah with
out their son, and, after a lapse of
some years, without receiving any
tidings of him, they began to mourn
him as dead. Young Peacock
adopted the wild life that was pre-
sented to him, and to which he had
become partly accustomed. He
engaged in fTeighting across the
plains with mule teams, served as |
an Indian scout in the wars that |
prevailed on what then was the I
frontier, and when the civil war
broke out he joined his fortunes
with the Union. While quar-
tered with his regiment in
one OF the cities on the
Gulf, he was stricken with cholera,
and from that place a report reached |
his parents that he was dead. This
confirmed their fears, and from that
time what little Hope uncer
tainty had given them was lost.
Peacock recovered however, and ct
the close Of the war, drifted, with
many others, toward the north vest
ern territories. He engaged in min
ing, and at times was quite well off,
But the tide Of his prosperity ebbed
and flowed, as it has with every man
who has engaged IN that business,
and his fortunes rose and fell with
The usual irTeguIarity. In this man
1er the years drifted away, until
-ast April, when Mr. Peacock visited
Salt Lake, IN the company of one of
hose fellows who are ''posted, % and
know every one in the town."
AS they were walking down
Main street one day, Mr..
5eac0ck saw face in the crowd
hat brought back the memory of
MS b0yhOod days. He thought
he happy home in England, and of
rs baby sister, and he was sure
hat the face was hers. With eager
expectation he enquired of his
rlend, the name OF the young LADY,,
.uJ the man who WAS "pOsted" told
i'm that She was not a resident of
he city. Mr.. Peacock was not sat
SIZED, however, and he made a num-
'eT of inquiries in regard to the
ubject, and finally got on the proper
rail, and after following it for
laay weeks, he WAS rewarded. He
act his family, and it is need less to
ay ii was a happy reunion. His
gad mothers joy, at the find
lg of her long lost sou, knew
0 bounds Tbs young lady
'hom MIR. Peacock had seen on the
-reet, was not the sister, whom he
ed kn6Wn as a baby-she having
ied-but a younger sister, whose
'y at finding brother, whom she
ad never known. can be better
nagined than described. Mr.. Pea
JcR~ intends to make Salt Lake his
ornament place of residence.