Widow's Joy: Lost child found after 4 years

[John Hartwell]

[Baltimore Daily Exchange, 8 August 1861]
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Are there any dry eyes in the house?

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

No!!!!! What a lovely, wonderful story- now there's a Christmas present for the forum tree, thank you!

 

[donna]

Thanks so much for posting. It certainly brings tears.

 

[Championhilz]

Here's an article I wrote about a Mississippi soldier who found his daughter 40 years after the war ended:

https://mississippiconfederates.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/a-daughter-lost-and-found/

 

[NH Civil War Gal]

Here's an article I wrote about a Mississippi soldier who found his daughter 40 years after the war ended:

https://mississippiconfederates.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/a-daughter-lost-and-found/

What a story! I agree with one of your original commentators, both sad and uplifting at the same time.

 

[Mrs. V]

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[Baltimore Daily Exchange, 8 August 1861]
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Are there any dry eyes in the house?

Wow! Kind of odd that the child did not know his address, so that he could ask for help getting home. But those were different times.

 

[John Hartwell]

Wow! Kind of odd that the child did not know his address, so that he could ask for help getting home. But those were different times.

I was wondering that, too. A 6-year old should be expected to be able to communicate these things to a police officer, or a churchman, or someone presumably reliable. But, a lot of things "should" be that aren't.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

I'm addicted to era newspapers anyway- may have to go there for lovely stories at the moment. This is one.

 

[Llewellyn]

Well, the last sentence ruined it for me. The German family sending the mite out to beg, then taking the money to provide him with the necessaries of life without (it would appear) making efforts to find the boy's identity.

Maybe Baltimore is a place where it's easy to get lost ? The black sheep of my family apparently ended up there and drank himself to death, excluded from wills and recorded family history.