Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — George Meadows Finds His Daughter. [ARTICLE]

George Meadows Finds His Daughter.

Ills., but a native of Jasper Co., a l formerly living in Hanging Grove and Milroy Tps., has lately been reunited with a daughter who had been lost to him for many years. The circumstances as related by Mr. Meadows n a letter the Morocco Courier, are as follows:

About sixteen years ago when I lost my wife, I left my little daughter, between four and five years of age, with family in Gilman, Illinois, while I went East, and when I returned to claim her nearly a year later the family could not be found. I employed skillful men to search for her and advertised in the papers, bnt failed to find any trace of her and as the years rolled on I almost lost ail hope of ever seeing her again. But about six weeks ago I received a letter from a gentleman in Thawville, Ills., who bad been employed in the search, informing me that a young lady answering the description and who said her name was Jennie Me dows, although she went by the name of Jennie Kiesler, was living with a Mr. Kiester, of Piper City. I went immediately and found it was indeed my long lost daughter, the gent.em&n who first took her having died in Nebraska she was transferred to the Kiester’s family. I brought her home with me to my overjoyed family,