The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-08
FOUND A LONG LOST FATHER.
4 FORMER sAVANNAHIAN FIGURES
IN 4 ROMANCE.

He Left His Infant Daughter with an
Aunt After the Death of His Wife
and Later the Aunt Reported The
Daughter Also Dead-The Aunts
story False. and Father and
Daughter Reunited After Twenty
Years.
Atlanta, Ga, March AFTER twenty
years Of separation in the belief that each
was dead, V. E. St. Cloud of Atlanta and
Miss Lena St. Cloud, his daughter, have
been reunited by a remarkable fierce OF
circumstances. The story reads like a
strange tale, but it can be easily estab-
lished as true.
Left with a selfish aunt in Texas when
baby in 1876, to be cared for until the
father could recover from the loss and
grief of the death of his wife, the child
was reared and taught from infancy that
its father died shortly after the death OF
its mother. Becoming attached to the in
FAINT, the aunt desired to keep it, and
when the father wrote to her of his in
tention to come after the baby from his
new home in another state, the guardian
of the child replied that it was dead
At that time the father lived at Homer,
really dead, he never returned to Texas
to claim it, A few years afterward he
came to Georgia and lived in Atlanta ana
then in Savannah Time almost erased
from his mind the memory of his dead
wife, and his supposedly dead baby ana
he resigned himself to a new life. lie
again married, aud when his 2O-year-old
daughter was restored to him a few days
ago in Atlanta, she found that she had a
second mother and two young sisters a
few years her junior She came to All
lanta from her home in Texas, and is
now living happily with the father she
never knew and his interesting family a,
10 Davis street, one of the best sections
Miss St. Cloud is now an accomplished
ana pretty young woman, and she will be
| a source of pleasure to her family long
framing IN an orphans home and under
| Kind circle of friends who took charge
| OF her at the death of the aunt who caused
| the separation and years of grief bring
| ing her up refined young woman She
| was educated at the Buckner Orphan
home of Dallas, Tex, and later lived with
| q generous Christian lady in Wellborn
| Tex, until leaving that place for her new
| home under her fathers roof in Atlanta.
several days ago. 1t is with fearful eve
/ that she recounts the anguish and un-
| happiness in her childhood and girlhood
| IN the belief that she had neither father
or mother. Her aunt was not the best of
| misery until rescued by the orphans home
ana brought up worthy young lady.
| After leaving his former home in Well
| porn, the father. a well-known citizen of
Atlanta now, went to Homer, La. as stat
! ed, and prospered at that place He mar
rled Miss Edith Seattle at that place and
| aIter TWO years wrote to his former wife's
SISTER Mrs. Maud Martin, of Wellborn
| VINO had charge of his baby girl that he
mad a new home and would soon return
! Tor the baby he loved, although leaving it
| When but few weeks old. He was shock
| ed TO receive a letter from Mrs Martin
informing him that his child had died a
! short time previous and that it was use
| less to make the trip. Believing in the wo-
mans statement the father moved to
georgia, and after short residence in At
lahta, ne moved TO Savannah, where he
| resided ten years, and where he was well
known as foreman of large shop in that
| place.
Five years ago the daughter, by some
| strange instinct, begun to believe that
! her father was still alive, despite the
| teachings of her aunt and others, that
he had died in Louisiana. She was then
! 10 years old, and one day resovled to en-
! deavor to learn something of her ances-
| ny. she, by months of search. finally
learned the name of a distant relative,
mrs Eugenia Warren, now of Quincy,
Fla, the wife of the sheriff of that place.
| Miss st. Cloud did not know the address
| of Mrs. Warren, however, she having
| lived at Eufaula, Ala, when last heard
at the Alabama place, she finally learned
| that Mrs. Warren had moved to another
place but the daughter in search of her
father lost the clew at this point. Mrs
| Warren could be traced only as far as
! Montgomery, and after five years of con-
tnued writing to different places Miss
| St Cloud only learned a week or two ago
| that Mrs. Warren was alive and living
! at Quincy. She at once wrote to the long
hunted relative and made inquiry about
| her father.
BY chance knowledge, Mrs. Warren was
| able to locate the father, Mr.. St. Cloud
| in Atlanta, and she quickly advised both
| father and daughter The father tele-
| Sraphed his daughter in Texas that he
| was alive, and told her to come to At
| lanta at once, which she did. arriving
| several days ago. 1t was a joyful meet
| ing after a lifetime separation on the
part of the young lady, but the two
| quickly knew their relation and locked
arms in love, never to part again. The
romantic story is the talk of Atlanta, it
| just becoming known to-day.