Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1916 — HUNTS 19 YEARS FOR UNCLES [ARTICLE]

HUNTS 19 YEARS FOR UNCLES

Men Named Poe, and Relatives of the Writer, Thought to Be In ( California. Chico, Cal.— Continuing a search for her two uncles which has extended over a period of 19 years, Mrs. Nellie E. Miller, whose father was the first cousin of Edgar Allan Poe, arrived in Chico recently. Her uncles, Edgar Allan Poe and Clifford Poe, were last heard from in 1896, when she was at her home in Hutchinson, Kan., at which time they were in San Francisco, having come there from their home in Hutchinson. Mrs. Miller came to California in 1896, and .since then has conducted a search for her uncles, which has taken her to various parts of California. She first went to Redding, where she entered the employ of Judge F. P. Primm as stenographer. From Redding she went to Yakima, Wash., where she remained for nine years. For five years she was employed as court reporter there. Leaving Yakima she went to Eureka, thence to San Francisco, and thence to Reno, Nev., where she entered the employ of Senator Huskey. Mrs. Miller has had no trace of her uncles since the San Francisco fire and earthquake in 1906, and fears they perished in the disaster. She believes her uncles, if alive, would be anxious to hear from her, and is unable to account for her inability to locate them in this event.