Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1914 — BIBLE FOUND ON WAR FIELD [ARTICLE]

BIBLE FOUND ON WAR FIELD

Baltimorean Holds the Fifty-Year-Old Relic Subject to Call of Relatives of Its Owner, Picked up more than 50 years ago on the battlefield of James’ Mills by big brother, W. T. Blakiston, who was later "fHe battle of Oettytfburg, a Bible which originally belonged to Qapt. W. M. Hathway of Company C, Anderson’s Lancers, is now in the possession of George Blackiston, president of the Hotel Relvidere company of Baltimore. It is being held by Mr. Blakiston In the hope that he may some day be able to fulfill a request made by his brother—a—dying- wish that has never been carried out. When the Bible was found by Mr. Blakiaton’s brother the latter wrote in it the request that whoever found it should return it to relatives of Capt. Hathway. . ...... • . ... . k