The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-15
LOST AND FOUND.
Strange Discovery of a
Daughter.
MRS. MARY LEMONS CHILD.
Her Identity With Mrs. Emma
Kane of This City.
MRS. MARY LEMONS CHILD.
TRACING THE LINKS OF KINSFiIP.
Light Thrown on an Alameda Will
Case Now Pending in the Courts
of That Burg.

The Iong-misslng daughter of Mrs. Mary
Louise Lemon, who died in Alameda last
February. anu whose will is in contest in
the courts of Alameda County. has been
discovered in San Francisco. She is Mrs.
Mary Emma Kane of 916 Hyde street
Mrs. kans has been resident OF this
city almost continuously since Childhood.
having been brought here from st. Louis
by Antoinotte Page and Jacob Snyder, her
father, the then husband Of Mrs. Lemon.
After their arrival here Henry Snyder.
who was then in San Francisco. took
charge of the child. alleging that his
brother had given him possession.
Henry Snyder Immediately endeavored
to find home for baby Emma, and ap-
piled to Mrs. Rachel Neal. the present
contestant of the will of Mrs. Lemon.
Mrs. Neal declined to take the child, and
she was given to a Mrs. Hathaway. whose
husband was partner of Henry Snyder.s
in the stove business. Henry Snyder 1t
appears never claimed the child as his own
by birth, merely by adoption. His object,
1t was alleged. was to keep her out OF the
hands OF Miss Page, to whom he was
married in February, 1851.
Whether the fact OF his effort 10 secure
a home for her attested any concern in
those days is not known by any one who
would be willing to tell. But the fact has
been shown that after nearly ten years &C.
cupyiDg the place of adopted daughter to
Mrs. Hathaway the child was taken by
Antoinette Page Mrs. Henry Snyder and
placed In convent, where she was kept
under the name of Mary COmsf0ck. that
surname being the maiden surname of An
toinette Page.
81 was made to believe" said Mrs.
Kane to CALL reporter last night In
long talk upon the matter, that my
mother was dead; that she disappeared
from st. Louis in 1852. Just before was
brought to California. My father, or the
man whom l had been LED TO believe was
my father, died a few years after our COM
ing here"
so many conflicting reports were brought
to the child, Emma Snyder, as to the death
of her mother that she was unable until
within the last three months to learn any,
thing definite concerning her. Henry
Snyder. who. after some years in Califor-
MIA returned to St. Louis, where he now
resides, told her that her mother ran away
with man who worked for her father.
Since the present investigation has been
instituted, he has informed an aunt of
Mrs. Kane's that Emma'S mother was
murdered.
The records in ST. Louis, where Mrs.
Kane was born, show that her fathers
name was Jacob Snyder and her mothers
name Ann Snyder (nee Anderson). Being
all the years of her womanh0Od disin-
clined to believe that her mother was dead
she has been watchful and thinks she was
rewarded with very material clew to her
mothers history last April. when the story
of tie con tested will case was printed in
which Mrs. Rachel Neal claiming to be a
sister of Mrs. Lemon, disclosed the fact
hot n w m q r. az a q r m q
to Mr.. Snyder of St. Louis, and she left
him and married Captain Fairchild: ran
away from him and came TO California.
1t appears now, if the stories told are
true, that when Jaco4 Snyder returned
from California to st. Louis he quarreled
with his wife. whom he had left there
without support while he was here, and
fathers estate and left the city. Snyder
then came back to California. fetching
with him his brothers. wife and his own
child, Emma. Snyder claimed that his
wife was about to give birth to another
child and that he was not the father. hence
the quarrel. Mrs. Snyder formerly Ann
Anderson left the child with some friends
near st. Luis and came to California to
find her little girl. When she arrived
here she was made to believe the girl was
dead
Mrs Fairchild fas Mrs. Lemon was then
known assumed a relationship with a
family named Tucker, whom she knew in
ST. Louis and Cincinnati. and, supposing
that her brothers and sisters and daugh-
tiers believed her dead, IL was not difficult
TO conceal her identity.
Der later marriage to Mr.. Lemon. and
subsequent marriage to Mr.. Foster.
brought out many things in her former
! life that showed plainly she was hiding
some secret from all with whom she came
| in contact.
| The secret, as it now appears, was, that
| having agreed with her mother to go away
and leave the early past behind, she con-
tinued the deception. particularly after she
thought her daughter was dead. Her son.
| who was born after she left home. is sup
posed TO have grown to manhood and was
known as DR.. Fairchild. who died in Gin
cnnati few years ago.
These facts. If they shall be shown to be
accurate, may cut some figure IN the coz
| testing of The will of Mrs Lemon