Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-07-16
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sadie Jones Finds Her Dying Mothee ~
Ter Eighteen Years of separation.
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4 romance full of real life was unfolied
ut the Pittsburgh CITY Home to-day. Miss
Sadie Jones'. of New York City, arrived
here this nicrring in search cf her mother,
who,:l she had NOT seen for eighteen years.
At the OH "a OF the Guardians Gf tl.6 I'onr
she ssid her father de ,arted her mother.
herself anu al elder sister in 1854 ana wens
TO Colorado, where he subsequently died.
In Is5S, when Sadie was about four wears
old, her mother, who h,ti become lespond-
eut and reckl IS, left ;he:.. to their fats
and went they knew not where. The two
girls were cared for by relatives, anil the
elder is now married. Not hearing from
! their mother for 50 many years they con-
Guided she was dead, hut wer, astonished
a few weeks ago ct receiving q letter an
ncuncing that tho old lsdy was still alive.
The letter was writteii BY another in
mate OF the City Home, 80 wh6In she had
| told her life, and was received by Mr..
George c. Berket, a brother OF Miss Saiie's
| mother who IS foreman of Engine Com
peny No. ., New York CITY 1t tore the
post mark EcnAstead, the little village
on the Monogahtla nj which the City.
/ Home is located, lut the imprint OF the
State was llurred and illegible.
Miss Sadie, who was designated by tho
relatives to make 4 search, went first Ia
Homestead, near Buffalo, n. Y. and IN ei,
came to Homestead. Pa. The letter
written from here TO her uncle, Mr.:
Berket, gave brief history of her mothers
life since she left New York. She arrived
here the same ye2r she deserted her chill.
dren and friends, eighteen years ago, anu
some tine after, ly marry ing a man
named O'Neill, changed the name OF
Margaret Jones, which she attained
by her first marriage, TO that of Mar
garct O'Neill. She became the mother
of two children by her second marriage
and six years ago her second hrsbhhd
died, leaving her a widow For tile second
time: She managed 10 eile out AN exist
cnco somehow until the latter part Of last
year, when, being sick and destitute, she
was sent TO the poor farm.
When ali these facts had been explained
Assistant Secretary Necley, of the Poor
Guardians, took Sadie up to Homestead.
IL the hospital department, lying upon a
bed and nearly exhausted, Sadie saw an
aged woman. The whole frame OF tho
poor creature was convulsed with O hack
ing cough as they approached, for she IL
IN the last stages of consumption, but she
partially regained her composure and a.
the girl looked down upon her n terror
stricken expression at first came into her
eyes, her sallow checks blauchedf, and
then, with an expression Of Consuming
love Ia her countenGnce, she raised her
bony hands and in a voice, which, thouol
choked, was full of emotion, exclaimed:
"Sadie. Oh Sadier'
The woman recognized the daughter in :.
etantly without warning that she wa,
coming or suggestion as to who Sadie was.
The daughter knelt on the poor house fiocr
By the bedside of her dying motl:er, and
as they sobbed Historically, clIspeH their
arms around each others necks, and flood
ed the wretched womais's pillow with their
tears all others turned aside and left them
alone. Miss Sadie, when she becams
moro calm, said that the Identification was
made complete, not only by her mothers
corroboration of the story given above,
but by the fact that her mothers personal
appearance corresponds precisely with a
description given by her elder sister, and
among the principal details of this was a
! birth mark resembling a scar back of the
! right ear and the prominence Of her
mothers upper front teeth.
/ Mss Jones came with the purpos, of
taking her mother home, but the poor
creature Is t o weak 70 be moved, and the
devoted girl has engaged b5ard at Home
stead, and will pay daily visits TO tie ity
/ farm until the swiftly coming day when
the dying mother will be lost to the world
!