The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-04-25
Fortune Teller
Claims That Lost
Child Still Lives
So Strong Is She IN This Belief
Her Husband Was Sent
Many Miles to See Par
ents of Child.

For many years Mrs. j. p, Boyd,
of Ri. 3, DelRio, has practiced for
tune telling with cards and those
who know her believe she can equal
the Gypsies. Several years ago her
son was drowned in the French
Broad river and a search for his body
ensued. The search was unsuccess-
full until the mother told by the aid
of her cards where the body would
be found. Searching where she told
them, the body was found.
Mrs. Boyd does not tell fortunes
for money, but rather because she
believes in it and for passtime.
News of the disappearance of the lit
tie Ramsey child on Cosby worried
her until she decided to try the cards
to see what they would say. Accord
ing to the cards and Mrs. Boyd, the
child was picked up about mile and
a half from its home by two dark
men and carried across the mountain
toward and into Swayne county, N.
c., and is still living and in the Gus
tody of poor family who would
part with it for money, although
it is not being held for ransom.
Mrs. Boyd has never been in the
section of country where the child
disappeared, but her description of
the landscape is perfect. She as
serts the child was picked up in
low valley and carried across a high
peak and into a low gap leading to-
ward the green river section.
Mr.. Boyd went from his home to
that of John Ramsey, father of the
lost child, and told of the result Of
Mrs. Boyd's seance with the cards
and Mr.. and Mrs. Ramsey came to
Newport a few days ago and then
went to the home of the Boyd's near
Del Rio, Where they talked with Mrs.
Boyd. The parents of the child do
not put much faith in the story of
the cards, but having searched over
thousand acres of land and find
ing no further trace of the child than
its little footprints in the road and
along lonely mountain path in the
direction given by Mrs. Boyd they
will investigate the story with a faint
hope of finding their bright little
boy.
Plain talk readers are familiar
with the details of the disappearance
from its home on the 18th day of
March of the little Ramsey child and
the hunt for it which followed and
thousands of people of people all
,ver the country have watched the
1unt with a deep hope that the
bright little fellow might be found.
Leaving his home with smile on his
face, firmly believing he was big
}nough to find his way to the store
and join his brother and sister who
rad gone there on an errand it is but
human to wish the little fellow could
be found. Tracked to a distance of
almost two miles from his home and
into the section told of by the fortune
.eller it is again human to attach
some weight to her story, since there
he child disappeared and all further
search has revealed nothing but blank
disappointment.
The father and mother are small
Of stature and not physically strong,
but they have never abandoned hope
If finding their child. They have six
other children, two married, the lit
lie boy being the youngest. He was
about three years of age and weigh
ed twenty?six pounds. He was a
bright child and an interesting talker.
They are poor people but own their
title home in the mountains and are
,ontented and have enough of this
worlds goods to serve them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Boyd did not want
any money for their interest in the
affair and say they only want to be
instrumental in the return of the
,hild to its parents-Newport Plain
Talk, April %.