Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — Just Like a Story Book. [ARTICLE]

Just Like a Story Book.

Hettie Flowers, for two years past a domestic to the family of Mrs. Frances E. Mclntyre, Mount Vernon, N. Y., has just discovered the whereabouts of her father, from whom she has been separated twenty-two years. Miss Flowers had told Mrs. Mclntyre that her earliest recollections, though very indistinct, were of scenes in the South. When she was five years old she was kidnapped by a woman who was an enemy of her parents and was brought to New York, where, after a time, she was placed in an institution. Mrs. Mclntyre, interested by the woman’s story,began a search for her parents and wrote to nearly every post office in the southern states inquiring for persons named Flowers. At last she heard from Charles Flowers, a wealthy plumber of Macon, Ga., who said he had lost a daughter twentv-Uvo years ago under circumstances similar to those detailed by Miss Hettie. He had searched diligently for her, but in vain, and had given her up for dead. Further correspondence established the fact that Miss Hettie was his long-lost daughter, and he sent a check and a request that she go at once to Macon.—[Washington Star.