The Savannah morning news., 1900-11-25
TELLS A srnANeE sronr.
sir. Jim Num- Meets IIis sister AFTER
Thirty Years.

AMAHAN hNRs"f
Gainesville Ca. Sow ei-Mr Jim Mum
Of this city tells rather suauEe story
u runs This way
In tho yelr ies Alr Nunps father, the
late seaborn d. Sunu, moved Go Atlanta
from clarke county DIS telllh WAS poor
und after rcma.riuE there a few moatAs
he decided to try Gainesville 700 enc nope
OF getting Won Aaooriingly DE came
here. ana att.r foH weHAa. wrote back
20 his SON. 49, Jim Nurl to bring che
family lere. as be- had been ucucnted ana
had decided o. make tais place bis home
The OLD Alr line Railroad. now me s"uih-
ern was only completed a. butord ana
the household effects were shipped 20 TINT
point ana hauled oy wagon trains %
Gainesville.
Alr Nunu. ST.. was the father OF several
on .drtu boys and girls His daughter.
Sale. married 3 Frenchman hy the name
of Thomas Per Dee. who was located Ht
that time az penheld this state. some
time before her fathers removal 20
Gainesville she visited the family so At
lama and spent some tlma miuif'ering 20
ats wants he being very feeble az that
zine. and returned 90 her M-ldle georgia
home Be did not then entertain the idca
% moving 90 Gainesville. and when inc
decision was made 20 come here she Wua
not notified
About the time Nir Nunn decided 20
come here Mr Per Dee made up his mind
20 make change u.ro. Due
he went 20 the then thiuly populated sec-
lion Of South Georgia 60 engage IN tho
saw mill business NO letters were writ
ten hy either family in some time. and
neither knew whore enc other WIS nut
each presumed that tho other was living
at The Same place
Weeks passcl and SIT Nuun failed 20
hear from his daughters family. aud vice
versa. Weeks grew into months and san
no messages passed. Finally m nths grew
into year ana there was stli no news
Many letters had boon written by Mf.
Nunu's family 90 Mrs Per Dee at nrg
former postof'ce, but each wus returned
marked "uncallsd for" Mrs Per Dee hnd
also written 20 her father . family ~ At
lauta. ana likewise her letters were re
turned with the same explanation. Mr..
Num- wrote 70 a gentleman who lived near
where the Per Does formerly resided,
asking for iuforTn4 ton as 20 where they
we're bun the anaNcr came hack that De
didn't know: that Mr. Per Dee ala noe
know where he was going 20 locate when
be lcfl there.
Roth sides gave up-and thirty years
passed.
few weeks ago Mrs Per Dee. whose
a. where her husband moved 20 from
Pcnncld. decided that she would make
one last enort TO md her relatives. She
went 90 Atlanta. secured city directory
Aud looked IL over for the name Of Nu'n
she found two or three Nunne'
hut their initials did not CORE
pond with those Of any Of hor brothers or
SISTERS She finally came across one That
che decided 20 look up. She went 20 NE
boarding house. but he was out Inquiry
put her on tho track OF another Nunn,
and after considerable delay she found
him II wna her brother. Dilmus Nunn.
Explanations were soon made and brother
and sister were happy together. They
az once notified other brothers and SIS
,ers. except one. Mr. j. 81. Mum. whom
they decided 90 surprise, and they AL
3oined in a happy reunion.
Mouday Mrs Per Dee arrived 81 the
city and at once was driven to hir. NUNS
home. He had not been notified OF her
coming and u o. safe 60 say y was the
most Joyous surprise OF his life. Mrs.
Per Dec win remain here sometime ana
will visit all her relatives before return
ing home