Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1920 — MEET AGAIN AFTER 63 YEARS [ARTICLE]

MEET AGAIN AFTER 63 YEARS

Hoosier Cousins, Then Boys, Traveled West in Covered Wagons. Lafayette, Jan. 26. —A reunion, echoing an adventure of 63 years ago, is being held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mathias Stone in this city, two cousins who went west from this county in 1866, meeting here for the first time since then. C. H. Smith and G. B. Herrington, both residents of lowa, were small boys when they climbed into a cov* erefl. wagon with their parents and started for the state in which they now live. It took them 21 days to make the trip. Soon after arriving at their destination they separated and the meeting here is their first on Hoosier soil since the day they started away in the prairie schooner. Both are gray-bearded men now, Smith being 77 years old and Herrington 76.