The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-02-24
DAUGHTER SEEKING
LONG LOST MOTHER
Taken From Mother When Tw,
Years OId-Mother Somewhere
In the Black Hills.
Cleveland, O.. 2-9-11.
'lO4S Madison Ave.

mdyOI VI naplu C1Cy, .. -.
Dear Sir Will you please as
sist in the search for my dear moth
err? The enclosed clipping will ex-
plain some, and I will add that my
mother, Sadie M. White, and my
father, John H. Sherk, were married
mead Lodi. S. D., in 1878. l, the
daughter, Winifred, was born No
yember 6, 1879. They were separ-
ated before l was two years OF age.
Father took me and fled into Cana
Ga and gave me away. l was raised
under an assumed name. | have seen
father five times since he gave me
away. Father did not take me from
my mother because he cared for
me, for he gave me away, and al
though he is well fixed he never con-
tributed dollar to my support.
II just received letter from an
old friend of my mother, Mrs. Joseph
Sherk. at Wakonda, S. D., and she
states that the last she heard of my
mother she had married a ranchman
in the vicinity of the Black Hills. MY
father admits that mother is alive,
has married again. and has good
sized son and daughter. Oh, l do
want my mother. Father will not
give her name or address. My three
little sons ask you to please find our
grandma"
Thanking you In, advance for the
assistance I am sure you will give,
" am,
Every respectfully yours,
Mrs. Winifred Hagerty.
'Nee Sherk."
The clipping referred to, which is
taken from the Cleveland Plaindealer
reads as follows:
Somewhere in the United States,
Mrs. Winifred Hagerty, 1O48 Madi-
son Avenue S. w., has a mother
whom she dearly longs to see. Some
where that mother is just as dearly
longing to hold her daughter in her
arms, and is vainly trying to learn If
her child is alive.
Two persons know where both are
but refuse to tell either the location
of the other. Those two persons are
the father and stepmother of Mrs.
Hagerty. Letters from Mrs. Hagerty
to her father, begging and demand
ing her mothers whereabouts bring
the one reply I won't tell"
My mother was fifteen when my
father married her near Lodi, S. d.
Mrs. Hagerty said yesterday. L was
scarcely two years old when my faith
er and mother separated. Father
took me away one night and gave me
to an aunt living near Berlin, Ont.
My aunt had never seen my mother.
i have never seen or heard of my
mother since that night.
Eight years ago was thought
to be on my deathbed; father told
me mother had died several years
previously. Shortly after he and my
Several days before Christmas was
in the very act of writing to my faith
er when the mail man brought me a
letter from him telling me my moth
er was still alive and confessing that
he had told me an untruth in saying
she was dead. When / wrote de-
manding the reason he did not re-
ply.
Last week Mrs. Hagerty received
another letter which said:
Don't write me any more letters
about your mother because it is USE
less. We had letter from your
mother some time ago making inquir-
les about you. We told her you mar
#ried and lived long way from here.
We did not give her your address
because we did not think 1t prudent. !
''The fathers name is John H.
sherk. He lives at Vermillion. 8. D..