Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — Came Home in a Shipwreck. [ARTICLE]

Came Home in a Shipwreck.

Among the shipwrecked sailors who were saved by the life-saving crews along the New Jersey coast in the recent storm was one grizzled old salt who was picked up near South Amboy in an exhausted condition, but still clinging to a broken spar. When able to speak he said his name was Jacob Wood, and that a quarter of a century ago he was well known in that section of the countiy. He had sailed away as captain of the bark Emma in the early part of 1871, leaving a family at Morristown, N. J. For twentytwo years he has been drifting about the world, and what had become of his family be did not know. Captain Wood had become injured by the floating wreckage, so he was cared for in a house in the neighborhood. Mrs. Frances Briggs, a resident of Brooklyn, happened to be visiting some friends near South Amboy, and when she learned that the shipwrecked sailor's name was Jacob Wood, she astonished her friends by saying he must be her grandfather, who was supposed to have been lo»t at sea over twenty years ago. Then she hurried to the house and found her hopes realized. The captain’s son has taken Lira to his home.—[Chicago Herald.