Arizona republican., 1914-09-27
SISTERS FIND . 0NE ANOTHER AFTER AZ YEARS
Mesa City Scene of Touch ing Meeting of Two Aged Ladies, Each of Whom Thought Other Dead for Years
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 light in the eastern part of this coun- ty, where two sisters who had been for focty-two years found each other alive and well, although both had grown from young woman- hood to grandmotherhood in the meantime, when Mrs. California Car penter and Mrs. Arizona Beshears met in the home of a granddaughter and grandniece in Mesa recently. The two are the daughters of the late Captain Nat Reed, who was one Of the early settlers of this state.
 When Captain Nat Reed started from Knights Ferry, Tuolumne Co., California, in 1872, he little thought that his two eldest daughters would not meet again until the year 1914, neither did he think that they would meet in the state for which one of them was named.
 The captain came west before the war, and labOred in the gold fields Of California, and upon the birth of his
  mia. His work had also extended into the territory of Arizona, and when he was on furlough during the war, another daughter was born to him and she was named Arizona.
 In the year 1872, at Knights Ferry, for number of years, California was married to James Carpenter, and about three months after, Reed and Carpenter decided to go to Houston, Texas, with their families, to make a new home. They started for San Francisco, intending to go south by way of Cape Horn, land at Galveston and then overland to Houston. A delay in many matters caused Jim" to be about two weeks later than his f9therin-laW in arriving at San Francisco. Captain Reed, on arriving at the coast city, decided that the better way for him to get to Houston was by the Great Northern route, which he and the remainder of his family did. The family consisted of Arizona, nearing womanhood, and Lucy and Marion, who were then very small children.
 Captain Reed and family arrived county, Texas, about 65 miles south west Upon arriving there they lm- tried to establish core spondence with Jim and his wife. The only definite report they could get was that the ship on which they were supposed to have sailed was sunk and all on board lost Jim and his wife. however, were on the boat the previous trip and had arrived safe and sound at Galveston, and then as per previous agreement, had gone directly to Houston, where they built themselves home
 They, too, wrote back to friends to try and locate the captain and family with the result that they came to the conclusion that in making the trip the party with which they were had been destroyed by Indians.
 Each family went on with the home building, the captain in Brown coun :
 
 where the captain and his wife are buried, while Jim Carpenter was at Houston, four hundred miles away Arizona, or Ara, as she was known. married J. M. Beshears.
 Jim and his wife lived at Houston for about twenty years and then went to California and settled in the northern part of the state. They lived there a few years and then wen; to Oregon for a short time, finally landing in the territory of Arizona about nineteen years ago. Jim Car penter and his wife Callie, as she was familiarly known, stopped ir a hundred head of heifer calves from the Petersons, Phelps, Davis, Roth rock. and others. and took them UT into the Tonto basin, where he To- cated a ranch and has resided ever since.
 After the death of Captain Reed and wife, Ara and husband lived or in Texas for about twenty years ano decided that they would go to Cali fornia and make a new home. The. went back to the place where the family had started to try and fine some trace of the missing sister While they could not find anything definite, they met many of the ole friends of the family, and again they were forced to believe that Jim ant Callie had gone down in the deep They located at Valley Springs an{ | lived there for a short time, return ed to Texas, and then went back t California where they lived at Bal1' ersfield until July, 1913, when thel came to Mesa, where their daughter Mrs A. J. Baker, was living. They bought a place in the Lehi valley and have resided there since. Mrs Baker was reading an ac- count of one James Carpenter ant wife having been in Mesa for a visit and her curiosity was aroused. as z result of which she located them d the Alhamb-a, and finding that thai' names were on the register as Callit Carpenter, Georgia Lam, and Jame: Carpenter, she thought they nigh 1 be children of her aunt On calling for the parties Miss Lam answered and upon being asked to have Cali, Carpenter come to the phone, wa. answered that grandma was quit, deaf and that she would have to tall 1 for her.
 l "All right" said Mrs. Baker, "yol listen and I'll talk to you. You asl your grandma if her name befor,