Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1901 — Mrs. Hickman Finds Her Father. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Hickman Finds Her Father.

[Special to The Indianapolis News.] Rensselaer Ind., August 12 Mrs. Francis E. Hickman has discovered the whereabouts of her father, Edmund B- Appleton, who was supposed to have died forty years ago. He enlisted with an Illinois cavalry oompany during the civil war, and news cf his death afterwards reaohed his family. - The family separated, the children going to various parts of the country. Appleton was taken prisoner and held until the close of the war, when he returned to his old home in Ohio and found his family had left. He married again and is now living near Looksburg, Ark., and is eighty-four years old. About a year ago Mrs. Hickman heard of the whereabouts of her brother, L. B. Appleton, for the first time in thirty years. He is a pastor of an Elkhart church.