Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1901 — HER FATHER STILL LIVES [ARTICLE]

HER FATHER STILL LIVES

Although Mourned as Dead for the Past Forty Years. Edmond B. Appleton, after having been mourned as dead for the past 40 years, is located by his daughter, Mrs. Frances E. Hickman of this city. The discovery that he still lives 'ind later his whereabouts came about in a very unique manner. It appears that Mrs. Hickman, acting upon the advice of friends, had applied for an orphan’s pension, for the period during which she was entitled to same, supposing that her father was killed in the second year of the war. The papers were placed on file in the pension bureau and in the researches made by the officials of that department, they learned that a man bearing the same name and description was now drawing a pension and living in Lockesburg, Arkansas. The news was immediately communicated to Mrs. Hickman and she wrote to the address given, under the guise of her present name, asking for information concerning his family, and the reply which was promptly sent, proved to her beyond a doubt, that her father was alive and well. An urgent invitation to visit his daughter at this place was the outcome of the affair. It will be remembered that sometime ago, Mrs. Hickman learned of the whereabouts of her brother, Rev. L B. Appleton, after 30 years separation, and he spent sometime with the family here during the past year, but is now pastor of a church in Elkhart. He has been informed, by letter, j of the news concerning his father. The separation of tlie family came about in the following wiy: j During the first year of the war, j her father, Mr. Edward Appleton, 1 enlisted and went into active ser- | vice and in 1862, news came to his family, then at their old home in Ohio, that he had been killed in battle. In a short time after this, Mrs. Appleton died, leaving the children to shift for themselves. Mrs. Hicktnan together with a sister were placed in an orphans’ home in Dayton. Ohio, the former being taken later by a John Ogden and adopted as his daughter. Mr. Ogden later moved from | Dayton to Urbann. Ohio. In this j manner the balance of the fnmily drifted to different parts of the : United States, finally ending in an 1 almost entire separation of some ; members of the family. Mrs. Hickman has only had ! the one letter, thus far, from her j father, but it is supposed that he returned home at the close of the war, only to find it broken up entirely and the whereal)outs of his )children unknown. What most people want is something ■ inittl and gentle, when in need of a phvs- • ic. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver i Tablets till the bill to a dot. Thev are 1 easy to take anil pleasant in effect. For J sale by Long.