The Ronan pioneer., 1917-06-15
MOTHER SEEKS TO
BID SON G00DBY
GAVE HIM UP TO BUREAU OF
CHILD PROTECTION 13
YEARS AGO.
Agreed She Would Not Communicate
With Him Until He Was Fl: Time
Has Elapsed, and She Thinks He
May Have Enlisted; Record Lost;
Mother DiscOnsOlate,

Somewhere in Montana few days
ago a youth, whose birth name was
Lloyd Nash, may have registered for
selective draft. and if he or any of
his friends, or the foster parents who
adopted him read this story of the
search of his mother for his where
abouts, letter to NJ l.. Hickman,
secretary of the bureau of child and
animal protection, will be gratefully
received.
The officials desire to place the
boy in communication with his moth
er, who has not seen him since that
sad day, 13 years ago, when she gave
him up to Otto M. Schoenfeldt, the
state humane officer, and went away
to seek her livelihood.
She Made Promise.
When Mrs. Susie Nash, widow,
living at Chester, came to Great
Falls in 1904 and gave the boy to
Mr.. Schoenfeldt she did so because
she was unable to earn living for
herself and the boy. She agreed
tearfully not to make any attempt to
learn where he had been placed until
he had reached the age of 21. In
return for this, Mr.. Schoenfeldt
promised that the lad should have
good permanent home, and when he
reached his majority, if she wrote,
the letter would be placed in his
hands and he could communicate
with her.
Mrs Nash departed and Mr.. Scho-
enfeldt found a home for the boy.
That much he remembers, but he
can find no written record. His
memory has played him trick and
he cannot now remember the name
of the foster parents who have the
boy at this time. Whether the lad
grew to manhood in this state, or
whether the foster parents removed
to another state is equally as obscure
in the memory of Mr.. Schoenfelds
In the 13 years that the mother
and boy have been separated, no
word came from the mother. She
was keeping her promise not to at
) tempt to communicate with the son
, or learn his whereabouts.
A few days ago the silence of 13
!, years was broken. There came let
ter to Mr.. Schoenfeldt who now lives
at Sheridan. The mother called his
attention to the agreement of Janu-
ary 16, 1904, and begged that he
would send her the name and ad-
dress of her boy.
He became of age on April %, this
year, and realizing that he would
register for the selective draft, She
wrote to remind Mr.. Schoenfeldt of
the promise. She desires to see him
before he goes into the army. She is
now Mrs. Perry A. Hetor and lives In
Trout creek in Sanders county, hav-
returned some years ago from Wash
ington state, where she married.
| Search Is in Vain.
Mr.. Rickman has searched the rec
ords of his office and nothing ap-
pears to afford the slightest clew to
the Nash boy. Mr.. Schoenfeldt sor-
rowfully admits that among his pa
pers he can find no record and his
memory plays him false as to what
he did with the child. He remem-
bers the woman and the circum-
stance of her having brought the boy
to him. Mrs. Hetor, formerly Mrs.
Nash, mentions a Mrs. Glab, as the
name of a woman whom Mr.. Schoen-
feldt suggested as likely to take the
boy, but Mrs. Glab did not adopt him.
| Inquiry at the orphans home at
, Twin Bridges discloses the name OF
{ no boy named Nash, nor do the sec
tartan orphans homes show receipt
of boy of that name. Mr.. Schoen-
feldt is sure, however, that the boy
, was not turned over to an institution
, but was given to a family to rear.
But who that family is and what
is it's address or name, Schoenfeldt
, does not know.